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Pillsbury Doughboy 10, LeBron James 1. The Pillsbury Doughboy mascot garners more than 10 times the social-media buzz related to its brand, Pillsbury, than LeBron James does related to his sponsor, Nike.
If you're keeping score: Pillsbury Doughboy, 10, LeBron James, 1.
That's right, the familiar Pillsbury Doughboy mascot garners more than 10 times the social-media buzz related to its brand, Pillsbury, than celebrity endorser LeBron James does related to his biggest brand sponsor, Nike, according to research to be released Monday by Synthesio, a social-media monitoring specialist.
"LeBron probably brings a lot of value to Nike, but in terms of social media and Nike, he has virtually no value at all," says Loïc Moisand, co-founder and CEO of Synthesio. "If you're a marketer that wants to raise awareness in social media, it's useless to spend money on celebrities," he says.
It's an age-old argument that will probably never be settled: Do brands get their money's worth from celebrities? In terms of social-media eyeballs -- which typically relate to a younger and often more desirable demographic, it appears that mascots leave celebrity endorsers in the dust.
"It's the cuddle quotient," explains brand consultant Kate Newlin. While mascots can seem sweet, charming and integral to a brand, celebrity endorsers often seem to be little more than "rented," she says.
Except GoDaddy's Danica Patrick, that is.
Patrick, the race car driver, finished about four times higher than any other celebrity endorser in brand-related social-media buzz in the social-media research report. Moisand says it's in part, because Patrick frequently mentions GoDaddy in tweets from her personal handle. Also, he says, "she appears reachable."
"The best social media isn't scripted," says Barb Rechterman, chief marketing officer at GoDaddy. "Danica's the real deal."
While LeBron James is the real deal in the National Basketball Association basketball finals, when it comes to millions of social-media users linking him with Nike when they chat online, well, says Moisand, "they just don't care."
He suggests that Nike consider dumping LeBron in its social-media branding and, perhaps, replace him with some sort of Swoosh-like mascot.
Nike has no such plans. "It's important to note that LeBron's overall social presence is independent of Nike -- a presence that he uses as a vehicle to connect with his fans, says Nike spokesman KeJuan Wilkins.
Newlin, the brand consultant, isn't at all surprised that, as a brand endorser, the Doughboy has more social-media stretch than LeBron. "LeBron gets us to stop and take a look at what he's doing, but not to engage," she says. "Also, you want friendly, right? The Doughboy also has a heritage. We grew up with him, he's approachable, ticklish and now genuinely touchable in a virtual (kind of way)."
To be fair, Nike's James actually ranked No. 3 in brand-related social-media buzz among all celebrity endorsers -- behind Patrick for GoDaddy and singer Rihanna for Cover Girl. But all of them, except Patrick, were bested in brand social-media buzz not only by the Pillsbury Doughboy, but also by the Aflac Duck, "Flo" for Progressive Insurance and Geico's Gecko.
The social-media research study -- of everything publicly appearing on sites from Facebook to Twitter to millions of blogs and forums -- was done between November 2012 and April 2013. The study looked for any posts that mention both the brand and the celebrity or mascot behind it.
Of course, the mascots had one big advantage: They don't have another job, says Moisand, so, 100% of their efforts can be spent hyping the brand and engaging with the online community, he says.
So convincing was his own company's research to Moisand that after the study was completed, the CEO immediately ordered his company -- Synthesio -- to create its own mascot. It's a ladybug, appropriately named, Synthia.
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2019-04-25T18:12:01Z
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/06/10/celebrity-advertising-lebron-james-pillsbury/2400971/
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The government has almost doubled its investment in building new council housing in what it has labelled the largest spending in the sector “for at least two decades”, in a sign of Labour setting out its priorities compared to the Conservatives ahead of the election.
Labour's core vote needs to ask would Cameron's Tories invest in housing for you? To which the answer would be yes, but it would be private and they would have to make a profit out of your need.
Catching up with friends and family over the festive season included lots of pointed reminders about why so many have either resigned or let their Labour Party membership lapse. Everyone has their own particular reason..too much interference in health and education, failure to take on the fat cats, obsession with private sector, nuclear power, nuclear weapons..I could go on. But one particular remark from a former Labour Party branch secretary whom I asked what would encourage him to rejoin struck me as likely to resonant. That was a commitment to a public inquiry into the second Iraq War.
The rest fit into a generalised category which will come as no surprise: no say, no pay. I see changing that perception of the Labour Party and rehabilitating the idea of party political membership as active citizenship as the challenge which our National Executive Committee must address in 2009 if it is to have a future.
Royal Mail: what is one to believe?
I am writing to you about today's announcement of the Hooper Report on the future of the Royal Mail.
The universal service helps to bind us together as a country. It guarantees 28 million homes and businesses across the country mail deliveries six days a week, with one price goes anywhere. The Hooper report warns that the universal service is now under threat. The status quo is untenable. The choice we face is either downgrading the service as we manage decline or acting now to turn things round and secure the Royal Mail's future.
The threat to the Royal Mail and the universal service comes from the impact of changes in technology and consumer choice. In this country 60 billion text messages were sent last year, while we posted five million fewer letters than two years ago. This shift has cost Royal Mail an estimated £500 million in profits. That is five times the impact of business lost to other postal companies in the liberalised market . Making these other companies go away is not the answer to the Royal Mail succeeding.
We will fufil our manifesto commitment to "a publicly owned Royal Mail fully restored to good health, providing customers with an excellent service and its employees with rewarding employment". Bringing in a partner through a minority stake in the Royal Mail's postal business will help us to deliver that goal. It will bring the Royal Mail fresh investment, new opportunities to grow in Europe and internationally, and to offer new services. It will provide a fresh impetus to modernising the Royal Mail and securing the universal service.
Alongside a strategic partnership for the Royal Mail we will reform regulation to more effectively support the universal service. And we will help the Royal Mail tackle its ballooning pension fund deficit. This will not impact on Post Office counters in anyway.
I hope you will agree with me that this is the best way to save the Royal Mail and its universal service guarantee.
What can I say as a mere rank and file member of the Labour Party? There was no reply facility in the eMail. But I know that a Labour government is paying obscene salaries to Royal Mail executives. At the same time there are loyal staff who collect and deliver my post who earn a fraction of those salaries.
So, sorry Gordon, since you asked, I don't agree on the basis of the information set out that part-privatisation is the best way to save the Royal Mail. Given the obscene amounts of money you have offered to the banking sector, I suspect there is nothing that a public service provider run by public service entrepreneurs needs to learn from the private sector to deliver a universal service guarantee.
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2019-04-20T03:08:59Z
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https://petergkenyon.typepad.com/peterkenyon/privatisation/
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In this advanced graduate seminar we will study some of the most important and challenging American modernists, including Gertrude Stein, Nathanael West, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright. Our discussions will focus on the impact of social modernity on the forms of fiction. We will investigate the influence of the mass media (movies, comic strips, advertising, the newspaper, etc.) on literature; we will consider the impact of World War I, urbanization, and the Great Depression; we will ponder the legacy of slavery and racism; and we will think about money--about the intersections of literature and economics at a period when the producer-capitalist culture of the nineteenth century was being transformed into our present culture of consumption. The reading list may include: Gertrude Stein, Three Lives and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; Malcolm Cowley, The Exile’s Return; Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises; Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, and The Day of the Locust; Nathan Asch, Pay Day; William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Go Down Moses; Richard Wright, Lawd Today! and Native Son. One class will be devoted to a round-table discussion of a number of documentary texts from the 1930s, and we will close by viewing a relevant film or two, like Sullivan’s Travels and The Moderns. Requirements: one or two in-class presentation on assigned topics and a final research paper. Protracted incompletes are frowned on.
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2019-04-19T20:34:10Z
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https://www.english.upenn.edu/courses/graduate/2004/spring/engl799.401
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2019-04-26T13:46:20Z
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https://yosoydelsur.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/navegacion-visual-ii-conversion-de-puntos-2d-a-3d/
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Two impressive new films in two days at two Curzons, which I hope can be seen round your way. We took a punt on Beginners, despite a pretty dopey looking poster, on the strength of a beguiling clip on The Graham Norton Show, where star Ewan McGregor was a guest. Please do not be put off by the dopey looking poster, or indeed the capsule-review shorthand that it’s “about” a man whose Dad comes out at the age of 75. It isn’t “about” that.
It’s written and directed by Mike Mills (not that one), whose work I am unfamiliar with – see that’s the fun of reviewing films on a blog and not for a national publication, where such an admission would invite scorn and ridicule. He made a film called Thumbsucker, apparently, and before that loads of music videos, but none that stick in my mind. Well, he’s clearly a talent, as he wrote and directed Beginners, and it’s really rather beautiful. I’ve always found Ewan McGregor a likeable actor, but he’s not always well cast, and struggles with the American accent, but as the bereaved son in Beginners – and it starts with his gay dad Plummer’s death and flashes back, so it’s not a spoiler – he finds amazing depth. Grief clearly brings out the best in him as an actor. This is a small film, low of budget, bereft of special effects beyond some brilliantly swift stills to illustrate McGregor’s downbeat narration, and shot in that way where you can hear the traffic in the distance. It’s set in LA, and boasts that dusty light that’s so appealing and yet so melancholy if all is not well, and you get lots of still, warm nights. When one of the characters takes a detour to New York they may as well be visiting another planet.
Oh, and the dog speaks, but in subtitles. This flourish is handled so well, and so unexpectedly, you will buy it. The actor Cosmo is the star of the film. I’m not even a dog person, but I fell in love with him from the moment McGregor gives him a tour of his apartment.
Talking of being married, A Separation (or جدایی نادر از سیمین in Persian, and whose full title seems to be Nader and Simin, A Separation) is an Iranian domestic drama featuring scenes from a marriage that do not seek laughs. It’s a hard film to watch, but a hugely rewarding one, if you’re interested in other cultures. I understand it has been warmly received in Iran because it was made without government funding and is, thus, much more frank than a lot of Iranian cinema, which still operates under a certain amount of censorship, and if they don’t approve of your work, you may be banned, or exiled. Tough room.
Directed by Asghar Farhadi, and starring Leila Hatami and Peyman Moaadi as the central married couple in Tehran, it presents an unsentimental and implicitly critical portrait of the way divorce is handled in Iran; it goes without saying that the system favours the husband, and yet, this is a middle-class, professional couple, living relatively comfortably, and as such, Simin comes across as empowered and independent, rather than – received wisdom alert! – oppressed and silenced. She seems to have dyed red hair, too.
The action begins, naturalistically, as if we are watching a documentary, before the judge at the “family court”, where domestic issues are presided over by a male elder. Because he deems Simin’s reasons for wanting a divorce unfounded (she has a visa and wishes to leave the country with their 11-year-old daughter and her husband, Nader, refuses to go with them, as his father has Alzheimer’s), she goes to live with her mother. Most of the drama takes place in their apartment, where Nader struggles to cope with his dad and his daughter, and an unpleasant chain of events is set in place. I felt we were led to blame Simin for these events, but it’s never as simple as that; Nader is no angel. It struck me as brave to show him not coping, privately, in a society where men are clearly supposed to be in charge.
My favourite performance came from Shahab Hosseini, who plays the hot-tempered, unemployed husband of the woman who secretly accepts payment to assist Nager when Simin leaves him. There’s a lot of stuff going on here about religion, obviously, but also a seemingly explicit caste system in Iranian, or Muslim, life, that was news to me, and a guiding thread about honour. It’s fascinating stuff. Put it this way, Hollywood isn’t going to remake it.
I’m still thinking about A Separation, days after having seen it, and sometimes I require that from a film. I appreciate that Iran has been a focus of interest over the last ten years as its cinema has reached a wider, international audience, and I’ve seen Blackboards and Kandahar (ironically, not set in Iran), but not enough, clearly. A Separation won the Golden Bear at Venice, the first Iranian film to do so. It’s not an easy watch, but I recommend it too. You live and learn.
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2019-04-24T17:59:31Z
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https://wherediditallgorightblog.wordpress.com/tag/dog/
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Note on Language Groups: The following is a list of language groups on Therafim, rather than a comprehensive listing of all possible languages. To know one of these language groups is to be able to have at least a working knowledge of the various dialects and pidgins that are connected to that language, or to be able to pick them up fairly quickly after some exposure and practice. Regardless of language listings in any Monster Manual or other sourcebook, all races on Therafim know only languages from these groups, unless they are intended to be utterly incomprehensible to others. While there are specific racial and regional languages, they are considered to be a part of the larger language groups listed below.
Abyssal - Used primarily by chaotic and evil outsiders, and also by maddened cultists. Uses the High Tongue Alphabet.
Aquan - Used primarily by aquatic creatures. Uses the Elemental Alphabet.
Auran - Used primarily by aerial creatures, including flying Beastfolk. Uses the Elemental Alphabet.
Axios - Used primarily by lawful outsiders and organizations. Most laws are recorded in this language, and many formal cases are fought using it as well, as it has the best vocabulary and terminology for such matters. Uses the High Tongue alphabet.
Carnivon - Used primarily by many beastfolk, especially the those based on carnivorous species. Uses the Runic alphabet.
Celestial - Used primarily by good outsiders and among good organizations. Uses the High Tongue alphabet.
Common - The language originally given to the people of Therafim by the gods, and so used by almost everyone who lives or visits the surface of Therafim. Also used by many planar creatures as their lingua franca, in those few instances where they are not able to use some form of telepathic communication. Uses the High Tongue alphabet.
Discordian - Used primarily by chaotic outsiders and among rebel and anarchist organizations. Uses the High Tongue alphabet.
Draconic - Used primarily by dragons, scholars, and many fallen civilizations. Not surprisingly, it uses the draconic alphabet.
Druidic - The secret language of druids, which allows them to communicate with each other, and also with all the animals in their lands or guardianship (magic is still required to speak to animals outside of a given druid's land). Uses the Runic alphabet.
Giant - First spoken by the titans, this language is primarily used by giants of all types, and by dwarves. Uses the Elemental alphabet.
Goblin - Used primarily by goblinoid races. Uses the Elemental alphabet.
High Imperial - The language of the Iron Throne and Cho-Lin Empires. Each dialect varies somewhat in local usage, but they are close enough that they are mutually intelligible. Uses the Draconic alphabet.
Ignan - Used primarily by fire-based creatures. Uses the Elemental Alphabet.
Infernal - Used primarily by lawful and evil outsiders, and as the secret tongue of many evil conspiracies. Uses the High Tongue alphabet.
Kar-Kravis - One of the less common languages, Kar-Kravis is in use by the humans of both Crescent and Hydra as a way of cultural identification. It has been kept carefully secret from the serpentfolk of Hydra and the minions of the undead from Necropolis on Crescent, and so can be used with some accuracy to identify if someone who looks like they are a part of the human peoples of Hydra and Crescent really is. It is also used for major financial interactions, keeping it in use primarily by nobility, royalty, trustworthy mercenaries, and wealthy merchants. Uses the Draconic alphabet.
Literacy - Literacy is not common on Therafim. Unless a given race or class is noted otherwise, it should be assumed that a given character is illiterate. Literacy is always an available bonus language for all races, though it is not listed on the bonus language lists. If someone is Literate, then they can read and write in all languages that they know.
Nord - This language is spoken by most humans and many other people in Rimevast and northern Summer Country and Autumn Land. It is especially common on the Bloodwit Delta of Rimevast, the northern Freeholds of Autumn Land, and Northwood in Summer Country. Uses the Elemental alphabet.
Parselmouth - Used primarily by reptilian and arachnid races, and also by the drow. Uses the Draconic alphabet.
Runnertongue - Used primarily by many beastfolk, especially those based on hoofed species, and by many nomadic peoples. Uses the Runic alphabet.
Squeak Speak - Used primarily by many beastfolk, especially those based on rodents and lagomorphs. Uses the Draconic alphabet.
Sylvan - The language spoken by the fey courts, and also used by Elves and Gnomes. Uses the Runic alphabet.
Terran - Used primarily by subterranean creatures and those with strong ties to the earth, including most Underdark races. Uses the Elemental Alphabet.
Trade Tongue - The language the humans brought to Therafim, now used primarily for trade purposes (since humans built some of the largest trade centers on Therafim), as the principle language of Bazram, and by Halflings. Uses the Draconic alphabet.
Undercommon - Where Common was given to the people of Therafim by the powers that created the world, Undercommon is an adaptation of that language to the strange and chaotic world of the Underdark and the depths of the seas and oceans, which has caused it to be heavily influenced by planar and elemental languages. It uses the High Tongue alphabet.
Wildlander - Noted for its extreme simplicity, Wildlander is used by many savage humanoids, such as orcs and thri-keen. Uses the Runic alphabet, though mostly just for decorative purposes and for basic trail markings and messages.
Elemental - A simple, blocky set of characters based upon the language of the elemental planes. This alphabet - actually a combination of letters and characters - was born out of a need for characters that could be fit together to create descriptions of the incredibly complex process of primal creation in as simple and compact a manner as possible, and so each word formed with this alphabet is a masterpiece of brevity and simplicity. It completely lacks a numerical system, since such things are meaningless in the infinite expanses of the elemental planes.
High Tongue - The first language, originally created in the higher planes as a form of preserving wisdom, and then adapted to the use of others. It is an incredibly easy to learn alphabet, being born out of the primal need for sentient beings to communicate and understand each other, and the languages based upon it are equally easy to learn. However, its number system lacks the concept of zero. The Dark Speech is the ultimate corruption of this alphabet, and is found mixed into the Abyssal and Infernal languages.
Runic - Born from the complex and poetic culture of the fey, the runic alphabet has very simple characters, but these can be strung together in many complex ways to form a vast variety of words, sentences and patterns that are as decorative as they are informative. There is no end to the vagaries of creation, and so there is no zero in the runic numerical system, which is based on the High Tongue system.
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2019-04-19T03:22:54Z
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http://therafimrpg.wikidot.com/languages
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Many of you already know about the hate incident in West Quad over the weekend.
If not, here is an article that will give you some background.
La Casa and UM’s Latinx community stand in solidaridad with the Black community in denouncing the hateful acts that occurred in the residence halls this weekend. Repulsive messages targeting students in our communities should not and cannot be ignored. University leadership must intentionally address the the sad reality that these incidents are not isolated and continue to contribute to the lack of inclusion and negative campus climate for all marginalized communities. Beliefs and actions that question the presence of members of our community on campus must be challenged and our community members must be supported. We urge our campus- students, staff, faculty, and administration-to proactively reach out to all marginalized communities and address important needs that continue to be expressed by too-frequently silenced voices.
For the three Black students in West Quad, please know that UM's Latinx community supports you and emphatically believes your presence on campus matters. You belong here.
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2019-04-25T09:08:44Z
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https://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/ac/en/news-events/all-news/search-news/letter-of-support-in-response-to-a-second-hate-incident-on-campu.html
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The NIST Safety, Health and Environment Division in Gaithersburg, MD is seeking an experienced Assistant Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) and Laboratory Health Physics Group (LHPG) Leader to oversee the NIST materials license and lead its Laboratory Health Physics Group, an organization of five full time staff. The LHPG is responsible for radiation safety and regulatory compliance for a broad scope materials and distribution license, and a variety of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation producing machines including accelerators up to 25 MeV, a synchrotron UV light source, x-ray machines, and electron microscopes, lasers, and microwaves. The LHPG assures compliance with NRC, OSHA, DOT, IATA, and EPA regulations. The LHPG performs radiation safety training, dosimetry, bioassays, RAM inventory control for sealed and unsealed isotopes ranging from H-3 to Am-241, including SNM, shipping and receiving, effluent and environmental monitoring, laboratory and survey instrument calibrations, laboratory surveillance, and other license support duties. The primary customers of the group are the scientists of the NIST Physics Laboratory. The Physics Laboratory provides primary calibration services for neutron, alpha, beta, x-ray, and gamma instruments. It produces primary isotope standards for distribution to industry. It provides source emissions rate measurements and calibrations for NIST traceability of secondary standards. The laboratory uses accelerators, high dose rate gamma cells, and radiochemical processes for fundamental research on the materials properties and effects.
Required is: A degree in natural science or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in health physics, engineering, radiological science, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and/or calculus. OR Combination of education and experience--courses as shown above, plus appropriate experience or other education; or certification as a health physicist (CHP) by the American Board of Health Physics, plus appropriate experience and other education that provided an understanding of sciences applicable to health physics. In addition to basic qualification requirements applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level.
Specialized experience is defined as serving as an assistant to the RSO for a broad scope license, certification as a health physicist (CHP) by the American Board of Health Physics and experience leading or managing professional health physics support in a diverse research environment. The incumbent must possess strong skill in working with a diverse group of scientists, technicians, and facilities support staff. It is important to have experience in building teams and consensus and shall serve as a Health Physicist technical expert for review and approval of protocols implementing a hazard analysis, hazard mitigation plan, and emergency response plans. The incumbent must possess detailed knowledge or the NRC Regulations for parts 19, 20, 30, 36, and 70, and have experience working under an NRC or equivalent broad scope license. The incumbent must possess strong skill and hands on experience working with isotopes and instrumentation. The incumbent will be responsible for daily management of the LHPG. This includes training, assignment of duties, oversight of results, management of performance plans and performance reviews. The incumbent will participate in facility surveillance and program audits and perform coverage for staff duties as required. The position requires ionizing radiation safety committee interaction, hazard review, policy recommendations and development, and review, modification and approval of practices and procedures.
This is a ZP-IV supervisory position with a known promotion potential to a ZP V, salary range $86,927to $141,675. Apply directly on USAJOBS, www.usajobs.gov<http://www.usajobs.gov/> to vacancy announcement number NIST-2009-ASF. The Department of Commerce is an equal opportunity employer. U.S. citizenship is required.
NIST's mission is broad - to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. It functions as one of the government's premier materials science laboratories.
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2019-04-19T14:32:45Z
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http://health.phys.iit.edu/archives/2009-March/026096.html
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The logo for Centre for Indigenous Education & Community Connections was designed by the late Ditidaht artist, Tsa Qwa Supp (Art Thompson). We gratefully acknowledge Tsa Qwa Supp's generosity in allowing us to use this design to symbolize the services we provide to students.
The two wolves represent members of a governing traditional system called Tl'uu Kwalaa. This system is practiced within the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation. Certain members of this system are keepers of knowledge. This logo represents a male and a female keeper of knowledge.
Tsa Qwa Supp passed on to the next world on March 30, 2003. He was extraordinarily generous to Indigenous students at Camosun College and other places of education. We miss him.
The logo may not be reproduced without permission.
Resembling a huge cedar hat and perched on top of the slope overlooking Lansdowne Road, the Gathering Place – Na'tsa'maht – was built as a culturally welcoming space.
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2019-04-18T20:57:02Z
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http://camosun.ca/learn/school/indigenous-education-community-connections/about/logo.html
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arizona
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Lung Diseases, Obstructive -- drug therapy.
This descriptive study examined in-patient education and use of metered dose inhaler (MDI) and MDI with spacer devices. Staff inservices had attempted to standardize hospital personnel knowledge and use of MD Is and MD Is with spacers for the purpose of improving care provided to in-patients with obstructive lung disease in this study setting. A convenience sample of 36 adult in-patients, hospitalized at least 24 hours to allow time for patient teaching to occur, answered questions and demonstrated use of MD Is and MD Is with spacers for the researcher. The study found that only 19.4% of in-patients reported being taught MDI and MDI with spacer use during their hospitalization. Rates of incorrect use of MDI and MDI with spacer were high. Inhaler experience was not found to correlate with correct use. Report of respiratory healthcare by a pulmonary disease specialist provider was associated with correct use ofMDis (p=.028). This study's findings were similar to those of previous studies regarding rates and characteristics of inpatient misuse of MDIs and MDIs with spacers.
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2019-04-25T13:54:02Z
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https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/627403
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Science
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pitt
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The lymphatic endothelium is involved in the drainage of interstitial fluid and in the migration of immune cells like dendritic cells (DCs) from the periphery to draining lymph nodes (LNs). Tuberculosis has been declared a pandemic infectious disease accounting for more than 2 million deaths annually and is caused by the intracellular bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The chronic inflammatory response to M. tuberculosis infection is characterized by the formation of granulomatous structures in the pulmonary compartments of infected individuals. These structures contain excess interstitial fluid and are enriched with immune cells including DCs. Therefore, the lymphatic vessels might play important roles in regulating drainage of fluid and migration of immune cells from granulomas to the draining LNs. My hypothesis was that there is an increased concentration of lymphatic vessels in these granulomatous structures and that the inflammatory environment including mycobacterial components present in granulomas and at other sites of infection elicit an inflammatory response from these lymphatic vessels which contribute to the overall immune response to M. tuberculosis infection. To address this hypothesis I have examined the distribution of lymphatic vessels in granulomatous and LN tissues obtained from nonhuman primates infected with M. tuberculosis and analyzed their expression of multiple chemokines and lymphatic markers. In addition, I evaluated the response of LECs to inflammatory mediators that included multiple TLR ligands, M. tuberculosis components and cytokines. I observed an association of lymphatic vessels with granulomas, and found that there was heterogeneity in the expression of chemokines and lymphatic markers by LECs in tissues. I also found that primary human LECs expressed multiple TLR molecules and responded to TLR ligands, cytokines and M. tuberculosis components by increasing expression of inflammatory chemokines, cytokines and adhesion molecules. These LECs also demonstrated phenotypic similarities with DCs. Overall my findings support the involvement of the lymphatic endothelium in the inflammatory immune response to pathogens like M. tuberculosis. From the perspective of public health relevance, these studies provide direction in the development of new therapeutic targets against M. tuberculosis infections and aid in the development of better adjuvants for vaccines for infectious diseases and cancers.
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2019-04-22T00:12:47Z
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/8591/
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"Appeal to the people" redirects here. For the Japanese communist document, see Appeal to the People.
This type of argument is known by several names, including appeal to the masses, appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to democracy, appeal to popularity, argument by consensus, consensus fallacy, authority of the many, bandwagon fallacy, vox populi, and in Latin as argumentum ad numerum ("appeal to the number"), fickle crowd syndrome, and consensus gentium ("agreement of the clans"). It is also the basis of a number of social phenomena, including communal reinforcement and the bandwagon effect. The Chinese proverb "three men make a tiger" concerns the same idea.
This fallacy is similar in structure to certain other fallacies that involve a confusion between the justification of a belief and its widespread acceptance by a given group of people. When an argument uses the appeal to the beliefs of a group of experts, it takes on the form of an appeal to authority; if the appeal is to the beliefs of a group of respected elders or the members of one's community over a long period of time, then it takes on the form of an appeal to tradition.
The argumentum ad populum can be a valid argument in inductive logic; for example, a poll of a sizeable population may find that 100% prefer a certain brand of product over another. A cogent (strong) argument can then be made that the next person to be considered will also very likely prefer that brand (but not always 100% since there could be exceptions), and the poll is valid evidence of that claim. However, it is unsuitable as an argument for deductive reasoning as proof, for instance to say that the poll proves that the preferred brand is superior to the competition in its composition or that everyone prefers that brand to the other.
Advocates of heliocentrism such as Galileo Galilei were outright suppressed, despite scientific evidence, now recognized as factual, that supported heliocentrism at the expense of geocentrism.
In some circumstances, a person may argue that the fact that Y people believe X to be true implies that X is false. This line of thought is closely related to the appeal to spite fallacy given that it invokes a person's contempt for the general populace or something about the general populace in order to persuade them that most are wrong about X. This ad populum reversal commits the same logical flaw as the original fallacy given that the idea "X is true" is inherently separate from the idea that "Y people believe X": "Y people believe in X as true, purely because Y people believe in it, and not because of any further considerations. Therefore X must be false." While Y people can believe X to be true for fallacious reasons, X might still be true. Their motivations for believing X do not affect whether X is true or false.
For example, everybody would love to listen to fabulous underground bands that nobody has ever head of before, but not all of us can do this. Once too many people find out about this great band, then they are no longer underground. And so we say that it's sold out or 'mainstream' or even 'co-opted by the system'. What has really happened is simply that too many people have started buying their albums so that listening to them no longer serves as a source of distinction. The real rebels therefore have to go off and find some new band to listen to that nobody else knows about in order to preserve this distinction and their sense of superiority over others.
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The 2019 Minnesota State High School League Boys’ Basketball Tournament will take place at Target Center in downtown Minneapolis this coming March. The state’s best basketball teams will hit the court Wednesday-Saturday, March 20-23.
Session 1: Class AAA Semi-Finals - Noon and 2 p.m.
Session 2: Class AAAA Semi-Finals - 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Session 3: Class A Semi-Finals - Noon and 2 p.m.
Session 4: Class AA Semi-Finals - 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Session 5: Class A Final - 11 a.m.
Class AA Final - 1 p.m.
Session 6: Class AAA Final - 5 p.m.
Class AAAA Final - 8 p.m.
Doors are scheduled to open approximately one hour prior to each session start time. Game times are approximate except for the AAAA Championship game which will begin at 8 p.m.
Small personal cameras and personal video cameras without tripods are allowed. Professional media must contact the Minnesota State High School League at 763-560-2262 to receive proper credentials.
See MSHSL Spectator Policies for more information.
Participating schools must go to www.mplsparking.com in advance, to purchase reserved parking spots for team, band or fan buses.
Participating teams and their families/fans can also check out www.mshsl.org or www.targetcenter.com/statetournaments for more information!
Tickets are $10 for students and $16 for adults per session. In addition, on Wednesday of each tournament, wristbands will be available for $13 for students and $21 for adults allowing in and out privileges and admittance to both Target Center and offsite games. Non-school age children are admitted for free.
All seats sold to the public are general admission. Tickets can be purchased in advance through AXS.com or at Target Center’s box office.
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2019-04-24T14:01:15Z
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https://www.targetcenter.com/events/detail/mshslboysbasketball19
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Line of protein powders and ready-to-drink products created to support fitness goals now available at national supermarket chain.
A new kind of fitness nutrition brand for aspiring athletes & fitness enthusiasts everywhere is launching exclusively at Kroger stores. trusourceTM is a line of protein powders and ready-to-drink protein beverages with amazing taste, unique packaging and innovative yet straightforward formulations to make everyday nutrition for an active lifestyle more convenient, simple and accessible.
“There is an unmet need in sports nutrition – trusource is going to grow the category with a brand philosophy, products and package design created to support real people in pursuit of their everyday fitness goals,” said Stuart Heflin, Senior Brand Manager, trusource.
Anytime Protein – a protein powder providing 20 grams of high quality protein per 140-calorie serving, Anytime Protein comes in Chocolate Shake and Vanilla Shake flavors and mixes easily in water, milk or milk alternatives like soy or almond milk.
Protein + Energy – a protein powder delivering 15 grams of protein per 90-calorie serving along with 75 milligrams of caffeine from natural sources, Protein + Energy comes in café-inspired Vanilla Latte and Chocolate Mocha flavors.
Protein Water -- a light, refreshing ready-to-drink protein beverage, Protein Water delivers 20 grams of protein per 80-calorie serving and is available in three fruit flavors – Citrus Splash, Fruit Passion and Blue Raspberry.
Protein Java – a ready-to-drink iced coffee beverage packed with 16 grams of protein and caffeine, Protein Java contains 100 calories and four grams of sugar.
“Partnering with key brands like trusource is allowing Kroger to build and provide a full product regimen to meet the needs of our customers,” said Travis Riepenhoff, Kroger Drug/GM Category Manager.
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2019-04-19T16:24:00Z
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https://www.muscleandfitness.com/supplements/boost-workout/new-fitness-nutrition-brand-trusource-launches-exclusively-kroger
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It was only a month ago when I commented on Germany’s discovery of flavoured crisps (or chips for any US readers dropping in), and already the Germans are amazing me with their inventiveness. Following hard on the heels of the Currywurst crisp, Germany would now like to present you with the very latest in snack flavourings… ladies and gentlement, a big hand for the Hangover Crisp!
Do they cause or cure a hangover? The small print does not explain….
Perhaps you’re supposed to eat them when you have a hangover to speed up the purging process.
Oh dear… you mean they taste of stale beer and vomit?
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2019-04-21T05:00:05Z
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https://planetgermany.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/a-newfound-enthusiasm-for-flavoured-crisps-sweeps-germany/
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This study examined one teacher's learning and implementing instructional conversations (Tharp and Gallimore, 1988). She received assistance through opportunities to: 1) observe effective examples of instructional conversations; 2) practice skills and get immediate feedback through conversation; 3) read and discuss articles about instructional conversations and questioning techniques; and 4) read and comment on transcripts of lessons and follow-up conversations. Participant-observation, unstructured conversations, and interviews comprised the data, which included transcripts of audio-taped lessons, follow-up conversations, and interviews. There was a gradual shift in the teacher's practices from recitation to instructional conversation. Action, reflection, and collaborative talk became the process of change in her practice and thinking. Additionally, data revealed that students gave longer responses, initiated conversation, and participated in responsive conversation in which they contributed to, challenged, and extended each others' statements. implications for teachers' professional development are discussed.
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2019-04-24T20:56:12Z
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https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol39/iss4/2/
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Foreword -- Executive summary of findings -- Technical findings -- Management findings -- Regulatory findings -- Chapter 1: Scope Of Investigation And Methodology -- Nature of report -- Scope of investigation and report -- Investigation methodology -- Structure of the report -- Chapter 2: Drilling For Oil In Deepwater -- Oil and gas in deepwater -- How to drill a deepwater well -- Chapter 3: Background On The Macondo Well, The Deepwater Horizon, And The Companies Involved -- Macondo well -- Deepwater Horizon -- Companies and individuals involved in the Macondo Blowout -- Chapter 4: Technical Findings -- Underlying technical causes -- Underlying management causes -- Chapter 4-1: Flow Path -- Potential flow paths -- Forensic evidence suggests that hydrocarbons did not flow up the annulus and through the seal assembly -- Hydrocarbons appear to have flowed into and up the production casing -- Technical findings -- Chapter 4-2: Well Design -- Deepwater well design -- Macondo well design -- Drilling the Macondo well -- Technical findings -- Management findings -- Chapter 4-3: Cement -- Well cementing -- Preparing for the Macondo cement job -- Designing the Macondo cement job -- Planning for and installing centralizers at Macondo -- Float collar installation and conversion at Macondo -- Pre-cementing wellbore conditioning at Macondo -- Cementing process at Macondo -- Float check at Macondo -- Cement evaluation at Macondo -- Technical findings -- Management findings -- Chapter 4-4: Foamed Cement Stability -- Foamed cement -- Foamed cement at Macondo -- Technical findings -- Management findings -- Chapter 4-5: Temporary Abandonment -- Temporary abandonment -- Temporary abandonment at Macondo -- Technical findings -- Management findings -- Chapter 4-6: Negative Pressure Test -- Well integrity tests -- Negative pressure test at Macondo -- Technical findings -- Management findings -- Chapter 4-7: Kick Detection -- Well monitoring and kick detection -- Well monitoring at Macondo -- Technical findings -- Management findings -- Chapter 4-8: Kick Response -- Well control equipment -- Kick response at Macondo -- Technical findings -- Management findings -- Chapter 4-9: Blowout Preventer -- Blind shear rams -- Blind shear ram activation at Macondo -- ROV hot stab activation at Macondo -- Automatic blind shear ram activation at Macondo -- Potential reasons the blind shear ram failed to seal -- BOP recertification -- Technical findings -- Management findings -- Chapter 4-10: Maintenance -- Transocean's rig management system -- Competing interests between drilling and maintenance -- Lack of onshore maintenance -- Maintenance audits and inspections -- Maintenance findings -- Chapter 5: Overarching Failures Of Management -- Leadership -- Communication -- Procedures -- Employees -- Contractors -- Technology -- Risk -- Closing -- Chapter 6: Regulatory Observations -- MMS background -- MMS regulations did not address many key risk factors for the blowout -- BOP recertification -- Ethical considerations -- Endnotes -- Appendix A: Blowout investigation team -- Appendix B: Commission staff -- Appendix C: Acronyms -- Appendix D: Chevron laboratory report cover letter -- Appendix E: Nile and Kaskida -- Schedule when the Deepwater Horizon arrived at Macondo request to suspend operations at Kaskida.
"On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men and beginning a catastrophe that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled over 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill disrupted an entire region's economy, damaged fisheries and critical habitats, and brought vividly to light the risks of deepwater drilling for oil and gas-the latest frontier in the national energy supply. Soon after, President Barack Obama appointed a seven-member Commission to investigate the disaster, analyze its causes and effects, and recommend the actions necessary to minimize such risks in the future. The Commission's report, supplemented by this Chief Counsel's Report, offers the American public and policymakers alike the fullest account available of what happened in the Gulf and why, and proposes actions-changes in company behavior, reform of government oversight, and investments in research and technology-required as industry moves forward to meet the nation's energy needs. Complementary reports, staff background paper, hearing records, and other materials produced by the Commission are available at www.oilspillcommission.gov ."--Back cover.
[v. 1]. Report to the President -- [v. 2]. Recommendations.
Paper version available for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. : "Serial no. 112-69." : Mode of access: World Wide Web. : System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. : Includes bibliographical references.
S. hrg ; 111-653 United States. Congress. Senate.
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Clinton McGrail Skinner, known as Click Clack to his friends, was born a star.
"He was born New Year's Day, 1997, and he got to be on national TV and in the papers," said his mum, Amanda Skinner.
"We worked it out that he was the first to be born in Australia that year."
Clinton continued to shine throughout his childhood, especially on the sporting field.
He started with soccer and progressed to rugby league, captaining the Grafton Ghosts, playing at a state level and for Indigenous representative sides.
"He was just a happy go-lucky lad," Amanda said.
"He was always there for people and would do anything for them."
His friends also described him as the life of the party, but after his 18th birthday Clinton began to experience depression.
"He was that upset and lugged anger around with him," Amanda said.
"He was going to parties on weekends and having silly arguments with mates.
"When I started cottoning on that he wasn't coping with stuff I advised him to go and live with his grandparents in Tasmania, and he agreed, but it didn't happen."
On June 27, Amanda found Clinton unconscious near their Grafton home after he had attempted to take his own life. He died in the Gold Coast University Hospital on June 29.
Amanda wants people to learn from her son's death by taking threats of suicide seriously.
"I didn't take him seriously, his friends said because he kept saying it all the time they didn't take him seriously," she said.
"He even texted his friends his last goodbyes."
She also urged young people to communicate with their families.
"Your parents are your first best friends you'll have in life," Amanda said.
"If you can't talk to them, talk to somebody."
Amanda is now working towards establishing a foundation in her son's honour to raise money for family accommodation near the Gold Coast hospital where Clinton spent his final days.
"They didn't cater for patients' families," she said.
"My mother and I slept on a small waiting room floor.
"It's bad enough to go up there under those circumstances. You need a bit of comfort."
She is also campaigning for funeral funds to remove clauses that prevent funding for death by suicide.
"I'd been in the Aboriginal funeral fund since 1996 and when Clinton came along he went straight in my fund," Amanda said.
"But because it was a suicide I wasn't entitled to Clinton's fund. That's an insult.
"Suicide clauses need to be abolished because it comes from mental illness and my son suffered with that."
And while those campaigns are helping Amanda to cope, she offered this advice to others who had lost a loved one to suicide: "Surround yourself with loved ones and don't blame yourself."
Lifeline Northern Rivers crisis centre manager Niall Mulligan echoed Amanda's advice.
"Suicide can leave behind feelings of guilt and inadequacy," he said.
"Our message is that suicides can be prevented if we work together but, of course, not all suicides are preventable."
He also said he believed it was important to speak publicly about suicide.
"If we discuss it openly and appropriately we can de-stigmatise it," he said.
"By discussing it, we may be able to free people to come forward who are having these thoughts."
- If you, or someone you know needs help you can contact the following national 24/7 crisis services: Lifeline 13 11 14, Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467, Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800, or MensLine Australia 1300 78 99 78.
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2019-04-26T02:52:30Z
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https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/09/10/4309939.htm?site=goldcoast
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SUM is a centre directly under the University Board. The University Board defines the mandate for SUM and nominates board members. The SUM board determines the Centre's organisation and budget. The Center is run by the director, that together with the administrative director constitute the centre leadership.
The centre management consists of research director Sidsel Roalkvam and administrative director Kristoffer Hofaker Ring.
The administration is responsible for research administration, study administration, economy, staff appointments, web, general information and media contact. We are located on the 2nd floor of Sognsveien 68.
SUM has a board with representatives from cooperative faculties at the University of Oslo and external institutions.
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2019-04-20T08:40:13Z
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https://www.sum.uio.no/english/about/organisation/index.html
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Police are seeking a man who has been missing from Loftus for over a week.
Graham Stephenson, 36, left his home at around midday on Wednesday, May 11, and has not been seen since.
He left without clothes, money and his mobile phone.
His fiancée, who is pregnant, is becoming increasingly concerned about his disappearance.
Graham is white, around 6ft tall, stocky build with a shaven head and brown eyes.
He was wearing a white T-shirt with a picture of a skull on the front, light blue jeans and blue Adidas trainers.
Anyone with information can contact Cleveland Police on (01642) 326326 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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2019-04-25T18:13:58Z
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https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/police-hunt-missing-loftus-man-3688024
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When was the country we now know as the United States first settled?
If you said 1620 for the Pilgrims you are way off.
“The country we now know as the United States”, which I will call America for the rest of this post, was first settled by Asians thousands of years ago. When the Pilgrims landed, America already had millions of people. Like, say, Squanto, who taught them how to live in America.
There were already Jews in New Mexico, Filipinos had already arrived in California and there were blacks living in Virginia, Florida and Puerto Rico. People who would become Chicanos were already in the south-west. All here before the Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower.
In Canada, just so you know, there white people already living in Nova Scotia and Quebec and English-speaking people in Newfoundland.
The Pilgrims were part of a white wave.
Pilgrim society did not even grow to take over the rest, making it the true starting point of what we now know as White America. In New England it was quickly overtaken by the Puritans, who came in the 1630s. And neither had much to do with the early history of the American South.
If the Pilgrims had failed, as Champlain had in Massachusetts in 1606, American history would have been much the same.
So why the Pilgrims? Why do they get so much attention? Because of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving was a New England holiday made national by Lincoln during the civil war. The Pilgrims did not become a part of it till the 1890s.
Thanksgiving – the holiday, the Pilgrim story, all of it – functions as an origin myth. But whose origin myth? Well, since Thanksgiving as we know it, down to the cranberries, comes from Northern Wasps, it is their origin myth. After destroying the South in the civil war they pretty much ran the country for a hundred years, so their origin myth has become the country’s origin myth. Even though not everyone came over on the Mayflower, even though many came before the Mayflower.
Feel the hype: Because of Thanksgiving schoolchildren all over America learn about the Pilgrims and Squanto and the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock and all the rest. So the Pilgrims become far more important in people’s minds than they were back in the 1600s.
Ah, yes, the pious Pilgrims. They embodied such determination and fortitude. It’s enough to make every (white) American proud.
To quote Napoleon Bonaparte “History is lies agreed upon” Happy Thanksgiving.
Good to know, learn something new every day?
Another reason why school textbooks should be burned in a massive bonfire and replaced with those that actually teach historical truth.
Was this also mentioned in James Loewen’s “Lies …”?
So the ‘Wild Wild West’. would be a little more colorful back then huh?
We distanced ourselves from this slave holiday. Yesterday was just another day.
Burning booking ,dude are you kidding ,that classic fascist policy.
Regardless of their content books are a historical record ,people will learn the “truth” by gaining more knowledge and from their mistakes ,not by destroying information no matter how misguided the source.
I like that; in one the most science dependent nations in the most technological ages known we still have and need an origin myth?!
Cause the truth is just to ah, um boring,painful inconvenient??!
what ya’ll do about that family togetherness and sharing feeling that has become associated with these holidays and season which just happen to be located at the end of the year?
Actually, I was joking. Granted, it wasn’t a good one, but I wasn’t being totally serious.
On the real, the actual, untouched history of Thanksgiving as well as the history of this country has to be told. People can only live in their fantasy for so long. It’s not healthy that they remain in their “worlds”. Reality can creep up and they wouldn’t know what to do. I’ve seen people act hysterical when they face the truth.
We have family dinners all the time. We bake and cook and share all the time. We don’t miss it.
The history books I read about when it came to the occupation of the US by British Europeans was the story of Jamestown, not Plymouth. Its my understanding that the reason why Thanksgiving is a maj holiday is because its the first time that different diverse people worked together and helped one another survive. Although later on the once that were helped stabbed the other in the back.
Mbeti is talking as though ‘holidays’ are neutral, innocent things. Every cultural ‘flag’ carries a narrative of power. Its like suggesting that here in South Africa we should continue celebrating Voortrekkers Day (a huge apartheid era ‘national holiday’ which, thankfully, is no longer celebrated) I applaud people like ‘truthbetold’.who have freed themselves from this kind of mental slavery.
I have never thought of it as such, but I do find the concept of thanksgiving being a form of mental slavery quite interesting.
Your information is interesting just to ponder from an intellectual viewpoint, but does anyone really care how Thanksgiving started? Not really. Just like families celebrating Christmas don’t care if it’s origins are a Germanic solstice festival and not the birth of Christ. Meanings behind holidays evolve. And this is true for many holidays around the world(as Mexican-Americans what the origin of Cinco de Mayo is, most of them have no idea). For most people, Thanksgiving is a time to enjoy a traditional N. American meal with people they care about, to the point that they will fly across country to do it. Nobody’s really even thinking about Pilgrims are Natives or Mayflower boats. Most don’t really care, even most white people. It’s just a special day set aside to get together with the family. Personally I love the holiday, the foods associated with it, the smells, the brisk weather, the fall foliage that comes with part of the year, the anticipation of the holiday season, the camaraderie with friends and family. What’s not to like about that?
I suppose Christmas is supposed to be religious but most christians kind of dropped that angle a long time ago, I mean hell the Grinch was written back in 66′ and christmas was already commercialized by then.
I don’t know if true but I think the original christmas was about suriving the winter without Odin killing you or some such sort of thing.
I mean I know I’m athiest and I celebrate christmas with my family, get together, do the presents etc…..
How many christmas movies deal w/christ vs Santa Clause?
Thanksgiving is the same thing, we don’t celebrate coming to gether in “peace” with the natives, we just eat a bunch of food gorging ourselves and hang out with family.
And basically commercialized family get togethers is all that Thanksgiving is, very few people give any thought to the ideas behind it ala Pilgrims and Indians having lunch together and even then its more of a something that could have happened than more of an out and out “fact” kind of deal.
That being said; yeah this is just another example of just how bad the history classes in our schools really are.
I’m sure there’s a bit of mythology surrounding the origins of Thanksgiving, but no more than there is with any cultural holiday anywhere else in the world. Some keep saying Thanksgiving is the celebration of genocide against Native Americans. The Pilgrims weren’t killing Indians*. Not all Indians were at war with settlers. In many cases they were allies and traded with the Europeans. Some were enemies with other Indian tribes and fought along side Europeans to defeat enemy tribes. Most Indians by far died from lack of immunity to European diseases, not a genocide. Most countries have a history of conquest and displacement of some former group, it’s nothing unique to America at all and not something that tarnishes this country to point of making it uniquely reprehensible. After all there were *empires* in pre-Colombian America, W. Africa and Europe. Empires are based upon capturing territory from weaker adversaries and making them your subjects. Americans, just eat your damn Turkey and enjoy your family on Thanksgiving and stop drowning yourselves in guilt for something that was basically universal in every part of this planet.
* and yes I know the official term is “Native American” but I get sick of typing out a long word repeatedly, you all know what I’m referring to by “Indian”.
I wanted to do a post based on his chapter on Pilgrims, but that chapter is kind of all over the place. So I wrote this instead, which is partly based on Loewen.
I like the Voortrekkers Day analogy. Thanksgiving is probably about as obscene as that.
The great thing about Thanksgiving and Christmas in the American North is that they come at a time of year when the weather becomes decidedly grim and bleak. Christmas Eve is one of the longest nights of the year. These two holidays are like when the nurse distracts you when she puts in the needle.
Weak adversaries need to GET OVER IT and MOVE ON and eat their damn turkey 😉 And stop feeling guilt for what others did to them!
Years ago some native american activists tried to make Thanksgiving as a national mourning day, but for some reason that did not worked out. I find the whole story quite hilarious, in a very dark sarcastic way. Americans are celebrating the biggest mistake the local natives ever did when they kept those so-called pilgrims alive. Letting them die off would have given few more years for the locals.
As for the term pilgrim. What pilgrims? They were not on a pilgrim to anywhere. They were bunch of religious extremist fanatics who were not persecuted because they wanted to live free and happy but because they were too extremist even for that time. Even the ducth, who were already by then extremely super tolerant (by the standards of that time) got pretty tired of these zelots when they first moved over there. It was only after the the dutch told these religious extremists take a hike, they had to look elsewhere and BING. There was new land somewhere across the big pond. This is an historical fact.
The leader of this extremist movement escaped first to Holland but got booted out because he did not behave as nicely as he should have been behaving. So that guy got the bright idea of sailing across the pond and creating a new extremely religious society over there, one where their extremely intolerant and fanatic ways of life would be the only ones.
They almost got lost at sea, some died on the journey because of the poor preparations and sailing, they actually landed where they landed by mistake, they were stupid enough to bring their own crops over and then wonder why these did not grow in this new land as well as in home etc.
The so-called pilgrims were not greeted with universal gratitude by the natives. One guy saw his chance in a intra tribal powerplay with these weirdos and took the chance with them. That is why they survived. One power hungry native who tried to use these new comers as his tools in his own power play saved their hinds. That is also an historical fact. Almost every other guy wanted to take care of the business but this one guy was able to persuade the local chief to let them be and trade with them. Also the local natives had this principle that said basically live and let live and when the chief did not see any harm, so it was.
Similar thing today would be a bunch of extreme talebans showing up in say, Boston, and start their own thing over there. And pretty soon they would start killing americans and shove their own language and their extreme version of religion down to the throats of americans, demanding that all americans should obey the sharia law, dress like they do, tell their stories and read their books etc., and every year there would be more and more talebans coming over. How would you feel about that?
Eh….its’ not like “Native Americans” is any better a name, it homogenizes them and labels them with the name of their conquerors.
Goes to show; my schooling actually got it right for once, only to disregard it in the teaching….
Though I had teachers admit in class infront of God and everybody that they only taught evolution because they had too.
That and Thanksgiving; like near anything else is usually more complex and interesting than what they are willing to teach about it.
I say use whatever words you want and if v-4 does not like it then he can gladly kick rocks.
Considering that my reply to you was because you were wanting me to change it; instead of being of the mind to just “kick rocks” about it then. Your reply to me is then somewhat off.
I don’t particularly care about what you want to call them just pointed out that Native American doesn’t come without its pitfalls either as a descriptive label.
What should Indian people call themselves? Whatever their tribal lineage happens to be. Or whatever they feel like calling themselves, its pretty much up to them.
It was I who stated “I say use whatever words you want and if v-4 does not like it then he can gladly kick rocks.” No more no less and certainly not a means to argue.
Okay; yeah I definately wasn’t paying enough attention earlier when I was reading.
I thought you were talking about the aboriginal tribes of the North and South Americas.
Bit of a mistake there.
Second, the origins of Thanksgiving go beyond Abe Lincoln and the Northern Wasps…Lincoln made it a national holiday, but it really does coincide with the settlement of the “pilgrims” and other northern settlers in the 1620s.
However, we agree that the story we were told is a myth. During first great feast of peace in 1621 (as you accurately point out in the Thanksgiving article) the Wampanoags were poisoned by the colonists. Subsequently, in 1637, the colonists massacred 700 Pequots during a thankful feast, marking the first unofficial thanksgiving….to give thanks for the deaths of more so-called heathens.
Maybe you should go live in Iraq. Your comments would be appreciated over there, not here. I’m embarrassed that I even checked out your Google sight.
You should be more embarrassed by your moronic comment, but to each his own.
Oh please, rewrite history. Sources please. The only proven point are that the original American Indians have Asian DNA.
you do know this is fake news!
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2019-04-26T11:45:54Z
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https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/america-did-not-start-with-the-pilgrims/
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Bush's message was simple: For America to win the war that was to come, it had no choice but to make aggressive, focused investments in basic science. The case was so compelling that Roosevelt approved it in 10 minutes. From radar to the Manhattan Project, the innovations that decision unleashed produced the military tools that won the war.
That same presidential decision launched the enduring partnership between the federal government and research universities, a partnership that has vastly enhanced America's military capabilities and security, initiated many important industries, produced countless medical advances and spawned virtually all of the technologies that account for our modern quality of life.
Today, the United States is tangled in a triple knot: a shaky economy, battered by volatile energy prices; world politics weighed down by issues of energy consumption and security; and mounting evidence of global climate change.
Building on the wisdom of Vannevar Bush, I believe we can address all three problems at once with dramatic new federal investment in energy research and development. If one advance could transform America's prospects, it would be ready access, at scale, to a range of affordable, renewable, low-carbon energy technologies – from large-scale solar and wind energy to safe nuclear power. Only one path will lead to such transformative technologies: research. Yet federal funding for energy research has dwindled to irrelevance. In 1980, 10 percent of federal research dollars went to energy. Today, the share is 2 percent.
Research investment by U.S. energy companies has mirrored this drop. In 2004, it stood at $1.2 billion in today's dollars. This might suit a cost-efficient, technologically mature, fossil-fuel-based energy sector, but it is insufficient for any industry that depends on innovation. Pharmaceutical companies invest 18 percent of revenue in R&D. Semiconductor firms invest 16 percent. Energy companies invest less than one-quarter of 1 percent. With this pattern of investment, we cannot expect an energy technology revolution.
While industry must support technology development, only government can prime the research pump. Congress must lead.
The potential gains – from the economy to global security to the climate -- are boundless. Other nations are also chasing these technologies. We must be first to market with the most innovative solutions. We must make sure that in the energy technology markets of the future, we have the power to invent, produce and sell – not the obligation to buy.
How much should we invest? In 2006 the government spent between $2.4 billion and $3.4 billion (less than half of the annual R&D budget of our largest pharmaceutical company). Many experts, including the Council on Competitiveness, recommend that federal energy research spending climb to twice or even 10 times current levels. In my view, the nation should move promptly to triple current rates, then increase funding further as the Energy Department builds its capacity to convert basic research into marketable technologies.
Vannevar Bush's insight was his appreciation of the value of basic research in powering innovation. I believe that we stand on the verge of a global energy technology revolution. Will America lead it and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision? I believe we can chart a profoundly hopeful, practical path to America's future – through rapid, sustained, broad-based and intensive investment in basic energy research.
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http://hockfield.mit.edu/reimagining-energy
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Brockmeyer, Anne, Hernandez, Marco, Kettle, Stewart and Smith, Spencer (2018) Casting a wider tax net: Experimental evidence from Costa Rica. Centre for Business Taxation Working Paper, Oxford.
increased compliance. The effect persisted in the medium term, and treated firms became more likely to report transactions with other firms, facilitating future tax enforcement.
Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, informality, tax evasion, firms, communication experiment.
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http://eureka.sbs.ox.ac.uk/7279/
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Cartoon map of Saratoga Springs and its environs printed on one side of sheet. A descriptive index of points of interest on verso. Map prepared by Saratoga Lions Club.
1 map on 1 sheet : col. ; 27 x 33 cm, folded to 11 x 27 cm.
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https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/saratoga_maps/17/
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"Gene-Environment Interaction of Body Mass Index and Apolipoprotein E " by Kumar B. Rajan, Kimberly A. Skarupski et al.
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2014 ; 28(2): 134–140.
Genetic variation alone may not account for common chronic disease susceptibility. Rather, an interaction between genetic and environmental factors may clarify the underlying disease mechanism. Hence, we tested whether BMI modified the genetic association of the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele with cognitive decline. The data came from a longitudinal population-based sample of 4,055 participants interviewed at 3-year intervals from 1993 to 2012. Cognitive function was assessed using a standardized global cognitive score and BMI was assessed at baseline and classified as normal, overweight, and obese. There were 1,374 (34%) participants with the ε4 allele. In normal BMI participants, cognitive decline was 0.048-unit per without the ε4 allele, and increased by an additional 0.031-unit per year with the ε4 allele. In overweight participants, cognitive decline was 0.038-unit per year without the ε4 allele, and increased by an additional 0.026-unit per year with the ε4 allele. Finally, in obese participants, cognitive decline was 0.038- unit per year without the ε4 allele, and increased by an additional 0.014-unit per year with the ε4 allele. The association of ε4 allele with cognitive decline was significantly lower in obese participants compared to normal BMI participants (p=0.003), thereby suggesting significant gene-environment interaction on cognitive decline.
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2019-04-22T04:25:23Z
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https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nutritionfacpub/139/
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Click this text to get more information on Pekingese and locate reputable breeders under the member section. We are members of the Pekingese Association.
This is by far the best vet in VA / WV / MD area.
They do it all and specialize in reproduction. The Dr. Also shows and breeds dogs. They are worth the drive even if you are far away. On your first visit please be sure and tell them Carrie Forsyth Roll-About Pekingese sent you.
Below you will find links to the products we love! As well as helpful dog clubs and show info. Read the link as to what we like from the company. Then you can click it and find the products. While some of the company's offer Shampoo we will recommend one over the other, as not all companies sell the same products.
Take The Lead is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people and their family's with illness who are involved in the sport of pure bred dogs. To find out more about how you can help please follow this link to their website.
Jeep Rubicon dog strollers and more types here.
Free shiping for orders over $50.00, Orijen 6 Fresh Fish, Merrick caned Wilderness Blend, and Honest Kitchen mixed with caned or kibble and great to raise pups on! Ziwi Peak all recommended by Roll-About!
Great for toys and other products! Ring side tables and brushes!
Lovely dog loving Jewelry store Makes beautiful custom dog pieces from your picture prices start at $1,000.00 and up !
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Darin Mickey’s Death Takes A Holiday is a study of used record stores in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as sites where record collectors attempt to reconnect with an idea of the past, their own past, and the legacy of music. Mickey says it in one line in his press release: “Shot from the perspective of a middle-aged man restlessly clinging to his youth and the hope of finding that elusive artifact to make anxiety subside and keep the reaper at bay, Death Takes a Holiday shows us a community of beautiful recluses brought together by obsession, compulsion and a pure, undying love of music.” He shows us the absorption of men – his subjects are all men, though not all middle-aged - hunting through endless bins of albums, artists and genres on divider cards labeled with fat black marker. The men stand in rapt attention, transported, their focus fixed on the records before them.
The book’s front endpaper is a detail from the cover of Bryan Ferry’s first solo album, 1973’s These Foolish Things. The choice of These Foolish Things to set the tone for Mickey’s book is a good one: while Ferry’s band Roxy Music was recognized for their pastiches of musical styles, colliding music’s past and its future, These Foolish Things was Ferry’s unapologetically affectionate tribute to pop songs that he loved, by Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and others, a nostalgic nod to the music with which he’d come of age. For all of its yearnings for the past, These Foolish Things now, itself, belongs to the past, one of so many albums that appear frequently and inexpensively in used record stores, its supply far, far exceeding any possible demand, a most minor album by a major player.
Death Takes A Holiday complements Ferry’s love of yesterday’s songs and reflects similarly on the search for a connection with one’s own past through music. Mickey photographs in older used record stores -- not the newer shops that have opened with the resurgence of interest in vinyl -- that serve as both archive and den, crammed from floor to ceiling with the stuff of the past. All of these records, a store but also a repository, add up to a physically persistent accumulation of song and music, more than any one person could listen to. MIckey shows us the environment that allows record collectors to fall comfortably into their intense focus: the plywood and pegboard, the layers of memorabilia and obsolete technology, the thick layers of dust and fluorescent lighting. These places, where old things are respected and not thrown away, are sanctuaries in which the collectors can safely indulge in their pursuits.
Mickey’s photographs demonstrate that each object in the store, whether a dusty sleeve, a rotary phone, a box of albums, is meaningful only in relation to the place. He draws attention to patterns: the different cardboard boxes that hold records, printed with their original contents (“eggs”, “poptarts”, “Kit Kat”); the endless stacks of boxes and shelves. Everything is torn, dinged, curled, or has a hole in it, but what’s important is that the vinyl itself is in good shape. At moments, it seems that he has recognized something almost spectral: the white back of a cardboard standup, carves an Elvis-shaped silhouette in space.
The modest book (it’s the size of a 7” single) is nostalgic but not sentimental. Death Takes A Holiday speaks to time and mortality, but in a light, playful way. Mickey doesn’t pity his subjects for their pursuit of their youthful sense of possibility; he is one of them, as I am. The past is full of plenty of things that we don’t need, far more than the things that we do need. Sorting that all out, recovering something that was once important to you, and which will remind you of who you were, that’s part of the pleasure of the quest. But the love of music, Mickey suggests, may not be quite the same as the love of collecting. Where the former lets you lose yourself for the duration of a song, the latter is defined by the feeling of need that led up to it, the feeling that all of the music in the world has washed up somewhere, and that in these piles of records there is something that will reward your time and attention, and your will to not forget, because you can’t let go.
All images © Darin Mickey, courtesy of J&L Books. Death Takes A Holiday ©J&L Books and Darin Mickey.
Vsit his website or contact Leo here.
Support Fraction and purchase Death Takes A Holiday here.
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The developer of a proposed desalination plant in Huntington Beach announced Friday that it is seeking to streamline its approval process.
The California Coastal Commission was originally supposed to consider Poseidon Water's coastal development permit Sept. 9, according to a news release from the company.
Instead, Poseidon and commission staff opted for the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board to determine if the plant first complies with the new Desalination Amendment, which requires that projects must use the best available site, design, technology and mitigation measures feasible to minimize the intake and mortality of marine life.
"While the regulatory process has been a long and winding road, we feel this is in the long-term best interest of receiving project approval and we look forward to continuing to work collaboratively with Coastal Commission staff to develop this water reliability project for Orange County," Poseidon spokesman Brian Lochrie said in an email.
Ray Hiemstra, associate director for Orange County Coastkeeper, an environmental organization that has been critical of the Poseidon project, said he sees the move as a "step in the right direction."
He called previous agencies' reviews of the plans "haphazard" because they examined it independently of one another instead of together.
"It hasn't been a coordinated method," Hiemstra said. "With this move by Poseidon, they're following the process so it has a rigorous review and it has due process for the entire review. What we're looking at now is the agencies talking to each other and figuring out exactly what's going to be covered."
The estimated $1-billion desalination plant, proposed to be built next to the AES power plant at Newland Street and Pacific Coast Highway, is expected to produce 50 million gallons per day of desalinated water.
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2019-04-20T01:17:59Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/hb-independent/news/tn-hbi-me-poseidon-20160824-story.html
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Jo Ann Walsh Dotson is an Associate Professor and Director of the BSN Program at Washington State University College of Nursing in Spokane, WA. Her research interests include public health, with a special focus on the maternal child health population and rural health promotion. Her dissertation topic was evaluation of home visiting services for high risk pregnant women. Dr. Dotson’s career includes staff and leadership positions in maternal child health settings, including nursery, NICU, PICU, ER and public health settings in Texas, Colorado and Massachusetts and Montana. She worked in Montana state government from 1990 – 2010, serving in the Maternal Child Health Bureau and Primary Care Office and for the last 13 years as the Title V Maternal Child Health Director. Dr. Dotson was a faculty member at Montana State University and Carroll College before moving to Washington state.
Dotson, J.W., & Smilie, J. (2018). Rural Public Health Structure and Practice and the Role of the Public Health Nurse. In C. Winters & H. Lee (Eds.), Rural Nursing: Concepts, Theory, and Practice. 5th Ed. (pp. 361-374). NYC, NY: Springer Publishing Co.
Dotson, J.W., Burduli, E. & McPherson, S. (2018). Substance Use and Abuse in Rural Communities. In C. Winters & H. Lee (Eds.), Rural Nursing: Concepts, Theory, and Practice. 5th Ed. (pp. 375-384). NYC, NY: Springer Publishing Co.
Erickson, N., Gartstein, M. & Dotson, J. (2017). Review of Prenatal Maternal Mental Health and the Development of Infant Temperament. JOGNN: Journal Of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 46(4), 588-600. doi:10.1016/j.jogn.2017.03.008.
Dotson, J., Pineda, R. Cylcowski, H. & S. Amiri. (2017). Development and Evaluation of an iPad Application to Promote Knowledge of Tobacco Use and Cessation by Pregnant Women. Nursing For Women’s Health, 21(3), 174–185.
Dotson, J. A. W., Nelson, L. A., Young, S. L., Buchwald, D., & Roll, J. (2017). Use of cell phones and computers for health promotion and tobacco cessation by American Indian college students in Montana. Rural And Remote Health, 17(1), 4014-4014.
Cheek, R., Dotson J., Ogilvie, L. (2016). Continuing Education for Mentors and a Mentoring Program for RN-to-BSN Students. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing. (in press).
Dotson, J. A. (2013). Improving tobacco cessation for pregnant & postpartum women. Communicating Nursing Research, 46, 606-606.
Dotson, J. A. W. (2011). Home visiting in Montana: effects on LBW and premature births and medicaid costs. Communicating Nursing Research, 44, 281-281.
Taren, D., Varela, F., Dotson J.A., Eden, J., Egger, M., Harper, J., Johnson, R. Kennedy, K., Kent, H., Muramoto, M., Peacock, J.C., Roberts, R., Sjolander, S., Streeter, N. Velarde, L. Hill, A. (2011). Developing a University-Workforce Partnership to Address Rural and Frontier MCH Training Needs: The Rocky Mountain Public Health Education Consortium (RMPHEC). Maternal Child Health Journal. Oct; Vol. 15 (7), pp. 845-50.
Dotson, J., Henderson, D., Magraw, M. (2003). A public health program for preventing fetal alcohol syndrome among women at risk in Montana. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 25, 757 – 761.
Dotson, J.W. (2002). Squeezing the Turnip – Equitable Distribution of Funding to Provide Maternal and Child Health Services in Rural America. Nursing Leadership Forum, 7 (1), 16-19.
Butterfield, P., Malliarakis, K., & Dotson, J.W. (2002). Billings’ Methamphetamine Epidemic: Nursing Leaders Frame A Public Health And Environmental Health Problem. Nursing Leadership Forum, 7 (1), 8-11.
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https://nursing.wsu.edu/people/joann-dotson
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Here we go again children, another tournament season draws nigh. Oh the pageantry, history, traditions, outright audacity and gall of this event. It defies the English language’s halting attempts at describing it and must truly be Experienced. And with that, it is with great humility and auspicious hope that I extend any reading this the opportunity to participate in the world’s greatest trivia tournament, March Trivia Madness XIV.
March Trivia Madness will culminate in Super Saturday, April 25th – location to be determined.
March Trivia Madness is broken down into two parts, The Cumulative and Super Saturday.
First you must earn your invitation. To earn an invitation to play, you must finish in the top 3 of a FCT nightly show & be the highest non-qualified team that night. You will then have 1 week to pay the $100 entry fee. If you do not pay your fee by the time Question #1 flies the following week, your qualification bubble period will have busted and you will have to re-qualify. Please note, each year there are a couple of “auto-qualify” shows that take place. Show up, play the game, pay the fee, and you are in. Follow us at facebook.com/fullcontacttrivia to look for the dates of those shows. Beware: Time and time again we see teams not take advantage of an early qualification thinking they will be able to re-qualify again before time runs out only to not be able to. If you have the advantage of entering early DO IT!
Prizes will be given to the TOP 10 Teams of the Cumulative, the Best Schwag at the Finals, More Convenient Arrivals Times for the Finals, and more!
The Cumulative Championship is recognized as the 2nd most prestigious title in Full Contact Trivia, only bested by winning Super Saturday and becoming World Champion.
In years past these have accrued separately from your weekly total, but that rule has changed. You may now select just one evening to post, meaning a 4th place 95 on Tuesday followed by a 1st place 85 (+6=91) on Wednesday would post as a 95 assuming no further games were played.
Your scores will accumulate even if you haven’t yet earned your invitation. (ie. If you play weeks 1-3 and don’t qualify until week 4, your scores from weeks 1-3 will carry over). So don’t panic if you don’t qualify in week 1. And if your score isn’t where you want it to be, play another show that week. A tournament week this year begins on Sunday and Ends on Thursday. Your highest score is the one that counts. So if you do badly on a Sunday, take advantage of a show later in the week. Want to ensure a good score? Play early and often.
On Saturday, April 25th at 2:00pm at a venue to be determined, the holiest of all Full Contact Trivia Events will begin, the Finals of the 14th Annual March Trivia Madness.
The number of people allowed on your team is determined by the number of chairs you earned during the Cumulative.
One team will be crowned the Full Contact Trivia World Champions.
Kickoff begins with the Trivia Bowl on Friday February 13th.
This entry was posted in MTM 14 (2015) and tagged March Trivia Madness. Bookmark the permalink.
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https://fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/announcing-march-trivia-madness-xiv/
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“Patrick made it easy for me to go on the internet for the first time at age 71. He set it up and has instructed me with patience, whilst I wrote things down, and made me relaxed. My confidence has grown and I’m enjoying being on my p.c., which I didn’t really expect. He has seen to everything connected with improving my use of the computer and I have complete confidence in his technical abilities”.
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2019-04-19T07:14:54Z
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https://patrickswoodward.wordpress.com/testimonials/
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We have available some of the the hardest to find concert tickets along with seats for other world tour concerts or events. Whether you are looking front row tickets, box seats, backstage passes, a suite, or club seats, we have the largest selection anywhere. Our inventory of our BBYGOYARD tickets are fairly cheap, a good bargain, and usually some of the lowest prices available. Much of the inventory we offer are for sold out events and often for a significant disount cmpared to many competitors.
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https://ballparks.com/tickets/concert_tickets/bbygoyard_tickets.htm
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Fantasy Baseball Cafe Forums • View topic - Any Rankings yet?
are there any sites out there yet with Player Rankings?
I dont know of any that are up yet. The cafe should have there rankings up in the next few weeks. I know they are working on it.
ESPN has their prelim rankings up.
all i see are the 2004 prelims..what's the link?
trevisc wrote: all i see are the 2004 prelims..what's the link?
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2019-04-26T03:48:34Z
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https://www.fantasybaseballcafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=91129&view=print
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"We can't believe how much energy it's added to our atrium!"
The process of commissioning a stained glass window begins when the client (you) describes or shows me the space, and explains preferences for colors, themes, or specific design requirements. You would tell me what designs you do and don't like on this web site, and I can send you other images to look at. I charge $500 per square foot, and give you a firm price as soon as the size of the window is decided. At this time, I request a 1/3 deposit for design time and material purchase.
Design sketches and glass samples are then sent to you for approval. Depending on your response, revisions might be made, a new design drawing created, or work begun on the project.
The design may involve painting and firing , etching, or fused glass elements. When completed, the windows are either delivered by me to the site, picked up by you, or crated and shipped.
Most installations do not require removal of existing clear window glass, which is usually thermopane. The stained glass window is placed in the window frame on the inside of the building and held in place with wood molding. There are, of course, exceptions to this process, depending on the size and location of the installation and instructions from you or your architect.
2009 - 11 panels for Millstream School, "River and Streams of Life"
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Autumn Rain. | Through rose tinted glasses.
So uplifting,.. embracing what is and living in the moment. I LOVED the photos too. Thank you for creating and sharing this moment and poetry.
Thankyou. I hope your feeling a little stronger.
You know, I have found when I am weakest, I am stronger… and when I think, I am strong, I am really very weak-just haven’t realized it yet. I love life, I love my own version of God, and I adore autumn leaves and a rain that brings a freshness to our lives…I deeply miss many people too, like you-which reminds me to love and care for those who are present in my life. Thank you for reminding me through your art of all these things.
← For the love of Simon.
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https://throughrosetintedglasses2017.wordpress.com/2017/10/25/autumn-rain/
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Trump can't be bought? he's already been bought!!
e's always quick to point out that He is rich. He is never been very quick to point out why he is rich, and I feel like that is an incredibly important question to ask.
So why is Donald Trump rich? And why does he think he can't be bought?
"The problem with letting this two party system capitalize on our emotions is that it gets out of control fast. We start accepting things that years ago, even AFTER the 9-11 attacks would have made us sick to our stomachs."
WOW! Since these first 11 episodes have aired a metric ton of comments, phone calls and emails have been pouring in! The show has been featured on the Libsyn feed (I’ll link that for you) and has been shared countless times across every social media network out there! You. Are. Awesome.
And here’s episode 12: Apple doesn’t think spying on you will protect you.
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2019-04-24T10:33:53Z
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Web development is a fast-growing career track, and SMU Coding Boot Camp’s Full Stack Flex course teaches you the specialized skills to tap into this rewarding industry. Through a fast-paced, immersive curriculum, you’ll learn the skills needed to help you become proficient in front-end and back-end technologies.
Receive a certificate in Full Stack Web Development from SMU Continuing and Professional Education (SMU CAPE), demonstrating your achievements.
Benefit from a wide set of career services like resume and social media support, technical interview training, portfolio reviews, soft skills training, practice sessions, and more to help you launch or advance your career.
As you embark on this 12- or 24-week journey, you’ll dive into a challenging curriculum and learn more than you thought was possible. With an interactive classroom environment and collaboration with your classmates, you will get hands-on experience in full-stack web development.
Contact an admissions advisor at (214) 775-9982 or fill out the form above if you’re ready to learn more about SMU Coding Boot Camp.
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2019-04-26T02:09:42Z
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https://techbootcamps.smu.edu/coding
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Say it ain't so, Joe! After a decade of playing together, the Galactic Cowboys have decided to call it quits.
Our next album, "Let It Go," is the last one in our current contract with Metal Blade Records. At this point, we (Galactic Cowboys) have decided that it is in our best interest to disband and to pursue our individual goals (of which you will hear about soon). We have not closed the door on working together in the future. We remain good friends and will be supportive of each other in the coming months and years.
At such times, our thoughts naturally turn to you, the people who share our love of good music and who have given us that ultimate vote of confidence by buying our records and taking the time to write to express support and appreciation for our efforts.
As we individually pursue our endeavors in music and related interests, we hope our paths will continue to cross with as many of you as possible. It is you, after all, who count the most in the end.
Galactic Cowboys, we sure will miss you!
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2019-04-21T18:27:15Z
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National Geographic's CHASING GENIUS is back with an UNLIMITED INNOVATION challenge—get your ideas flowing with this quiz.
Every day, it seems, your phone acquires yet another skill. Mobile devices have become instruments of extreme convenience for many of us, from hailing a ride to ordering lunch. And enterprising thinkers around the world are going further, imagining ways that connectivity and data can tackle serious problems in people's lives.
From delivering healthcare to saving the planet, our devices and the networks that power them carry unlimited potential to address global issues. With the UNLIMITED INNOVATION challenge, National Geographic's CHASING GENIUS will again be inviting you to share your own breakthrough ideas for the chance to win $25,000. This time, the theme is connectivity and the ways it can be used to improve our world.
The inaugural CHASING GENIUS challenge last year drew inspiring submissions aimed at a more sustainable planet, improving global health, and feeding a future population of nine billion.
How much do you know about the creative ways technology and data are being applied to long standing problems? Take this quiz, and see what ideas of your own come to mind. The challenge begins on January 23: To enter, visit natgeochasinggenius.com.
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2019-04-24T23:57:20Z
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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/chasing-genius-quiz-which-pioneering-tech-ideas-are-real/
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HONOLULU - Most Valuable Player honoree DeAngelo Hall had one of his team's five interceptions and returned a fumble 34 yards for a touchdown to help the NFC match a Pro Bowl scoring record in a 55-41 victory against the turnover-prone AFC in a game that was not nearly as interesting as the final would indicate.
Carolina's Jon Beason returned the fifth interception thrown by the AFC, and second by Cassel, 59 yards for the NFC's final touchdown to match the single-team scoring record set in the NFC's 55-52 victory in 2004.
The NFC led 42-0 after Steven Jackson waltzed through the defense for a 21-yard touchdown - and there still was 4 minutes left in the second quarter.
Rivers, starting in place of injured Tom Brady, was picked off twice in the first quarter, the second by Hall.
Manning, in his 11th Pro Bowl, came on briefly in relief, and his second pass was picked off. Then Cassel got his chance and quickly joined in the spirit of things, throwing his second pass of the game directly into the hands of Minnesota cornerback Antoine Winfield.
But just when it appeared it would be the most one-sided game in Pro Bowl history, eclipsing the Joe Theismann-led 45-3 NFC rout of the AFC in 1984, the AFC scored three touchdowns in a row. The last came on the game's seventh turnover, when Devin Hester tried to hand the kickoff return to Hal but the ball fell to the turf. Montell Owens of Jacksonville scooped it up and ran it in 10 yards for the score to make it 42-21 with 10 minutes left in the third quarter.
With his seven extra points, tying a Pro Bowl record, along with two field goals David Akers moved ahead of Morten Andersen (45) for most Pro Bowl points with 52.
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Bonnie King Cooper, 77, formerly of Amarillo, died Tuesday, March 18, 2014.
Services will be at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel with Bryan Cooper, nephew, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
Bonnie was born Nov. 15, 1936, in Amarillo to George and Ruth King. She graduated from Amarillo High School. Bonnie married J.C. Cooper and was a homemaker and a member of Bethel United Methodist Church near Irving.
Survivors include her husband of almost 58 years, J.C. Cooper, of the home; a son, Tim Cooper and wife Tamara of Bridgeport; her mother, Ruth King, of Amarillo; a brother, Jerry King and wife Lydia of Amarillo; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., today at the funeral home.
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Explore this page to read the biographies for each of our presenters for the spring semester. Simply click on the presenter’s name to reveal their biography.
Matthew Burtelow, MD, PhD and Dan Zuckerman, MD — Cancer: Precision Medicine, Hype, or Hope?
Matthew Burtelow, MD, PhD, attended Mayo Medical School and completed his residency at Stanford University Medical School. He currently serves as the president of Boise Pathology Group as well as the executive medical director of St. Luke’s West Region Clinical Laboratories.
Dan Zuckerman, MD, graduated valedictorian of Boise High School and went on to complete a doctorate of medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Apart from his many publications, Dan has received a number of awards including the Clinical Fellows Distinguished Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006 from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Clinical Excellence Award from the Idaho Hospital Association in 2018. He has served as the chair of the Clinical Practice Committee for the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He currently serves as the executive medical director of St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute.
Dario Bollacasa was born and raised in Northern Italy near Venice. He spent his working career at several high-tech companies and research laboratories. Since retirement, he has become a docent at the Boise Art Museum, a lecturer at Boise Learns and the Osher Institute, and a tutor at Boise State’s Learning Lab. Dario holds degrees from the Pratt Institute and completed graduate work at New York University and the University of Milan. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, South Korea, Japan, and North, Central, and South America. One of his recent endeavors has been to develop a series of books for junior readers that combine the history, culture, and art of past civilizations.
Branson J Collins, MD, received a bachelor of arts at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and completed medical school training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He was Chief Resident at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital where he completed his residency in anesthesiology and his advanced fellowship training in pain management. Dr. Collins is double board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology in anesthesiology and pain medicine. He is currently on a pathway to his triple board certification with a combined fellowship in anti-aging, metabolic and functional medicine, and functional metabolic and nutritional medicine through the American Academy of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine.
Ann DeBolt earned a bachelor of science at the University of Montana and a master of science in botany from Oregon State University. Between 1982 and 2007, she was a botanist for agencies including the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, and the National Park Service. Ann retired in 2017 after working for 10 years as a native plant and restoration botanist for the Idaho Botanical Garden. She first studied lichens at the University of Montana’s Yellow Bay Biological Station on Flathead Lake, which inspired her to develop a species list of lichens at Glacier National Park. More recently, her interest has turned to the diversity of lichens, both common and rare, in Florida’s disappearing habitats.
Ryan DeLuca founded Bodybuilding.com in 1999 at the age of 20 in his Boise garage. Under Ryan’s leadership, the company skyrocketed to nearly $500,000,000 in annual revenue before he stepped down as CEO in 2015. With almost zero startup capital and no outside investors, Ryan grew this company from nothing to become the world’s most visited fitness site and largest online retailer of sports nutrition supplements. A born innovator, Ryan was named Entrepreneur of the Year for the Idaho/Utah region by Ernst & Young in 2009. Inc. Magazine called him one of the “Top 5 Coolest Entrepreneurs Under 30.” Ryan temporarily retired for only six months before the startup bug bit him again and Black Box VR was born, merging his continued passions for technology, fitness, and how their intersection can help people transform their lives.
Dr. Rochelle Johnson is a professor of English and environmental studies at The College of Idaho. A past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, her research focuses on 19th century environmental literature and its larger cultural-aesthetic contexts. Rochelle has served on the boards of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, the James Fenimore Cooper Society, and the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Thoreau Society. In 2010, Rochelle was named “Idaho Professor of the Year” by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is currently writing a biography of Susan Fenimore Cooper.
Dr. Jaclyn Kettler is an assistant professor of political science at Boise State University. She earned a bachelor of arts at Baker University and a doctorate in political science from Rice University. Her research focuses on American politics with an emphasis on state politics, political parties and interest groups, campaign finance, and women in politics.
Dr. Jeffrey Lyons is an assistant professor of political science at Boise State University. His research focuses on American politics, specifically public opinion, political behavior, political psychology, and state politics. He earned a bachelor of science at the University of Idaho and a master of arts and doctorate at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dr. Jeff Kyong-McClain earned a doctorate in history from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After living in the capital of the Sichuan province of China for three years, he became an associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. There, he taught for nine years and focused his classes on Asian history and thought. Dr. Kyong-McClain has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and research notes as well as chapter in the book Chinese History in Geographical Perspective. He currently serves as the co-director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Idaho.
Leo Morales earned a bachelor of science in political science from Boise State University. He joined the ACLU of Idaho in 2011 as director of the communications and advocacy department and became the executive director in 2015. Prior to joining the ACLU, Leo worked with a statewide non-profit advocacy organization addressing issues of poverty and racial justice. His experience includes legislative work, media relations, and grassroots organizing.
Gemma Gaudette is an award-winning journalist and host of Boise State Public Radio’s “Idaho Matters” segment. She has spent the majority of her broadcasting career in Idaho, moving here in 1999 to start Fox 12 as a television news anchor and reporter. In 2004, she took a job as a television news anchor in Tampa, Florida, where she covered major national news stories including Hurricane Katrina, NASA’s return to flight after the Columbia disaster, and the 2004 presidential election where she got the opportunity to interview both President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry. Gemma moved back to Boise in 2006 and has been with Boise State Public Radio since 2017.
Dr. Nancy Napier is a Distinguished Professor emerita at Boise State University and an adjunct professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. She has published in several areas including organizational creativity and culture, emerging economies, and international business. She has founded several multi-sector learning groups called “gangs.” From 1994 to 2003, Dr. Napier managed Boise State’s $8.5 million capacity building project at the National Economics University in Hanoi, Vietnam. She has continued to work in Vietnam since and, for the last ten years, has coordinated trips with Boise State’s executive master of business administration students to Vietnam. In 2011, she was awarded the Ministry of Education and Training’s Medal of Honor and, in 2017, she received Vietnam’s Medal of Friendship—the highest award given to foreigners—for her contribution to the country’s education and development.
Gene Peacock is the director of Zoo Boise and the Friends of Zoo Boise. With 30 years of experience in this field, he is leading Zoo Boise’s first expansion in over a decade. Prior to his time in Boise, he worked as a zookeeper for large animals including elephants and rhinoceros. He also served as a regional manager with North Carolina State Parks where he oversaw collection management of natural and cultural resources as well as the construction of several nature centers in state parks across the state. He moved from North Carolina to Wilmington, Delaware to serve as the director of the Brandywine Zoo before serving as the director of the Museum of Science and History in Corpus Christi, Texas. Gene has been with Zoo Boise since early 2018.
April Southwick is a nurse practitioner at St. Luke’s travel medicine and immunization clinic. She started her nursing career at age 20 and went on to earn a bachelor of science in nursing from Weber State University. She worked in homecare until she graduated from the University of Texas—Houston Health Science Center with master’s degrees in public health and nursing. April began practicing in the occupational health department at St. Luke’s in 2002 and helped start the travel medicine and immunization clinic in 2009. She became certified in travel medicine in 2011 and enjoys managing and seeing patients at the travel clinic. She enjoys reading, music, gardening, being a wife, and being a mom to four daughters.
Dr. Bryan Taylor has served as the prosecuting attorney for Canyon County since 2010. Prior to becoming the elected prosecutor, he was a deputy prosecuting attorney handling crimes against persons and special victim crimes. He has been a prosecutor for over 18 years in the State of Idaho. Dr. Taylor holds a master of arts in theology from Notre Dame’s Christendom College, a juris doctorate from the University of Denver College of Law and a doctorate in adult and organizational learning from the University of Idaho.
Dr. Paul Castrovillo has been the insect curator and research associate for The College of Idaho Orma J Smith Museum of Natural History since 1994. Dr. Castrovillo has also been an entomologist for Idaho State Department of Agriculture since 2014. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, a master’s degree from Michigan State University, and a doctorate from the University of Idaho.
Cort Conley is the former director of the literary program at the Idaho Commission on the Arts. He has a background as a writer, editor, and publisher of books and has written several highlighting his adopted Idaho. In addition to his arts background, Conley worked as a river guide for more than 30 years throughout the west and, with his friend Johnny Carrey, turned their joint interest into historical guidebooks to three of Idaho’s rivers.
Justin Hayes oversees the Idaho Conservation League’s conservation programs which protect Idaho’s water quality, wildlands, climate, and the quality of life all Idahoans enjoy. A native Idahoan, Justin rejoices in the knowledge that his work is protecting the things that make Idaho a great place to live—our spectacular landscapes, clean air, and clean water. Justin lives in Boise with his two teenagers and enjoys spending his free time hunting and fishing in Idaho’s backcountry, mountain biking, skiing, and running Idaho’s amazing rivers.
Rick Just is a native Idahoan and grew up on a ranch along the Blackfoot River. He earned a bachelor of arts in English and a master of public administration at Boise State University. Rick worked for the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation for nearly 30 years as the communications manager and chief planner. He is the author of several books including an Idaho state parks history and does a daily Idaho history blog on Facebook called Speaking of Idaho. His latest book, A Kid’s Guide to Boise, was recently released in 2018 by Rediscovered Publishing. Rick is the director of Writers at Harriman, a summer writing camp for high school students.
Sam Mattise retired from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) after 34 years. He earned a master of science in wildlife biology and was hired as a wildlife biologist in 1978. In 1979, he started managing wild horse areas and populations as an alternate duty and took over the program for the BLM’s Boise district in 1994. As the wild horse management specialist, Sam conducted population surveys, production surveys, gathering operations, and public adoptions. Sam says he was very lucky to have been selected for this position because there is not much left of the Old West—but managing wild horses provides a small glimpse into what the West used to be.
Steve Nadeau — What is happening to Idaho’s Moose?
Steve Nadeau earned a bachelor of science in wildlife management from the University of Maine and a master of science in wildlife biology from the University of Montana. He moved to Idaho in 1987 to work for Idaho Fish and Game and served as a conservation officer, habitat biologist, population biologist, and head of the statewide wolf, bear, and cougar program for Idaho until wolves were delisted. He then oversaw the statewide moose, furbearer, and sportsman outreach programs for the state, and retired in 2017 after 30 years. Steve has presented two previous short courses for the Osher Institute—one on grizzly bear recovery and one on wolf recovery.
Dr. Rick Williams is a research associate in The College of Idaho’s Department of Biology. His research and writings have focused on the conservation of native trout and salmon for more than 30 years. Rick has worked on Columbia River salmon recovery issues since the 1980s and served on multiple scientific review panels including the SRG, ISG ISRP, and ISAB. In 2006, he served as editor and author for the book, Return to the River: Restoring Salmon to the Columbia River, which describes an ecosystem-based approach to restoring salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia River. In addition to his research and writing, Rick serves as a senior conservation advisor for Fly Fishers International.
Russ Thurow is a fisheries research scientist with the United States Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Boise. For the past 35 years, his research has focused on understanding ecosystem function and aquatic species responses in addition to the development of conservation and restoration strategies. Needless to say, Russ is very familiar with Central Idaho’s Middle Fork Salmon River basin and the ecology of its wild Chinook salmon and steelhead.
Dr. David Adler is the president of The Alturas Institute and has lectured nationally and internationally on the Constitution and presidential power. His scholarly writings have been invoked by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department, the White House and by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. He has taught courses on the Constitution at all three of Idaho’s universities. At Idaho State University, he served as director of the Center for the Study of the Constitution. At the University of Idaho, he was the James and Louise McClure Professor of Public Policy, served as director of the McClure Center, and was a member of the faculty of the College of Law. At Boise State University, he was the Cecil D. Andrus Professor of Public Policy and served as the director of the Andrus Center.
Ralph Bild is a retired intelligence analyst who served in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1973-2000. As an analyst, his primary duties involved providing timely reports and estimates of political and economic developments in key countries of interest to U.S. policy makers. His career spanned assignments in the Agency’s Near East, East European, and East Asian divisions. Ralph also helped guide intelligence collection efforts in the field and worked out of CIA field stations in Europe and Asia. He received a bachelor of arts in history from Oberlin College and a master of arts in international studies from The John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Following his retirement from the CIA, Ralph began a new career as a teacher at Borah Senior High School where he taught economics and world history for twelve years before retiring again in 2014.
Heidi Ware Carlisle is the education and outreach director for the Intermountain Bird Observatory (IBO) at Boise State University. She earned a master of science in biology from Boise State in 2014, during which she studied the impacts of traffic noise on migrating songbirds. Heidi’s work with IBO focuses on introducing the public to hands-on science through the IBO’s various research projects.
Dr. Jay Carlisle is the research director of the Intermountain Bird Observatory (IBO) and research associate faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at Boise State University. Dr. Carlisle earned a bachelor of science in ecology from The Evergreen State College and a doctorate in biology from the University of South Dakota. He has worked with the IBO since 1996, and, after completing his doctoral research on the stopover ecology of songbirds, Dr. Carlisle returned to Idaho to continue working with IBO as the research director. Since 2005, he has led the growth of IBO’s research and monitoring efforts to include studies of stopover ecology at Camas National Wildlife Refuge, various “at risk” species such as Burrowing and Flammulated Owls, Golden Eagle, Long-billed Curlew, Northern Goshawk, White-faced Ibis, and Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and many other research projects across the Intermountain West. He has also served as the coordinator for the Idaho Bird Conservation Partnership since 2011.
Dr. Paul Dawson is a professor emeritus in the School of Engineering at Boise State University. Dr. Dawson taught engineering at Boise State and the University of Idaho for 27 years as well as meteorology at Montana State University. At Boise State, he taught courses in the thermal sciences and elective courses in dynamic meteorology and renewable energy. Dr. Dawson has an academic and research background in meteorology and has performed research projects in wind and turbulence characteristics, air pollution, hydrometeorology, and wind energy modeling.
Marcus Downing started his career at Boise State University in the Office of Information Technology while earning a bachelor of science in advanced computer networking, a minor in alternative dispute resolution, and a master of science in human performance technology. After graduating from Boise State, he went on to work as a top-level technology strategist for three Fortune 200 Firms including URS, AECOM, and IBM where he was responsible for global technology management, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital programs. Marcus has been a cryptocurrency researcher since 2009 and contributed to the early design of Cofound.it’s mentoring program from Ljubljana Slovenia in 2017. He is a co-founder of multiple blockchain startups including ProperToken, a research firm focused on decentralized blockchain governance, and Keystodian Capital, an investment company focused on next-generation internet technology.
John Francis is a professor emeritus at Boise State University and art and design from 2001-2018. He has exhibited and lectured both nationally and internationally, including co-presenting alongside Germany’s HAWK University at the Geo/Graphics AIGA Conference in Hawaii on, “Typeplace: type + architecture, type + object, type + light.” He also presented, “How Design and Birds of Prey Came Together in Mongolia,” at the DesignEd Asia Conference in Hong Kong in 2007 and has been invited to lecture four times at Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design in Japan. His interest in Japanese culture led him to create Boise State’s short-term study course, ART 397: Art and Design Study Program in Japan, which has taken students to Japan eleven times.
Kenneth Fries’ interest in Africa began 50 years ago when he was in Senegal studying conciliation procedures in local courts under University of Chicago’s graduate French law program. He worked for twenty-five years as an attorney with a special responsibility for contract matters at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and his short-term assignments in Africa included Egypt, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kenneth retired from the U.S. government in 2000 as general counsel for the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) and afterwards directed the Center for Public Contract Law and Policy at the International Law Institute in Washington D.C. Since 2004, he has worked as an independent consultant and taught public procurement principles and practices in Nigeria, Uganda, Mauritius, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Egypt, and Ghana.
Dr. Samantha Harvey is a professor in the English Department at Boise State University. Her teaching and research interests include 19th-century British poetry and prose, transatlantic Romanticism, and literature and the environment. Dr. Harvey is the author of Transatlantic Transcendentalism: Coleridge, Emerson, and Nature as well as Coleridge’s Responses: Coleridge on Nature and Vision. Dr. Harvey earned a bachelor of arts in English and the study of religion from Harvard University and a doctorate in English literature from Cambridge University.
Dr. Brian Hodges is an associate professor of cello at Boise State University. He is the principal cellist of the Boise Baroque Chamber Orchestra and is a member of Classical Revolution: Boise. He contributes regularly to The Strad magazine and is the recent author of the book, Cello Secrets: Over 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Cellist.
Marc Johnson has worked as a broadcast journalist, a top aide to Idaho Governor Cecil D. Andrus, and as a public affairs and communications consultant. He retired from Gallatin Public Affairs in 2017 and now lives on the north coast of Oregon. With a passion for history and politics, Marc writes a blog, “Many Things Considered,” and produces and hosts a podcast. His writing on politics and policy has appeared in the New York Times, California Journal of Politics and Policy, The Blue Review, and Montana: The Magazine of Western History. He has presented on numerous subjects at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Boise State University and the University of Arizona. The University of Oklahoma Press will publish Political Hell-Raiser, Marc’s political biography of Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler, in March 2019.
Muffet Jones is an art historian with degrees from New York University and Columbia University. Her major areas of focus are 19th and 20th century American and European visual culture, but she has taught all periods of western art history. Muffet worked for many years for art galleries and as a lecturer in art and women’s studies in New York before coming back to Idaho where she now lectures at Boise State University.
Dr. Matthew Kohn is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Boise State University. Dr. Kohn earned a bachelor of science in geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master of science and doctorate in geology from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research is broadly geochemical and follows two rather different directions: investigating how mountain belts form and using stable isotopes to investigate paleoclimate and paleoecology. The latter research is grounded in studies of modern organisms. Dr. Kohn has edited three books, authored over 100 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, and mentored about a dozen graduate and twenty undergraduate student researchers. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and of the Mineralogical Society of America.
Tracey Kindall is a dedicated teacher and learner who loves sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with others. She earned a bachelor of science in biology from Grand Valley State University in Michigan and a master of science in folklore studies from the University of Oregon. For the past 10 years, Tracey has served as the part-time director of the McCall Arts and Humanities Council. In her work, she acts as a relentless advocate for the power of imagination and creates dynamic and educational programs for youth and adults. Mythology is a field particularly dear to Tracey. In addition to teaching mythology to middle school students at McCall’s private and internationally-accredited North Fork School, she also enjoys regularly offering special-topic classes for adults.
Dr. Rick Leahy is a professor emeritus of English at Boise State University. He earned a bachelor of science in English from the University of San Francisco, a master of arts from the University of Iowa, and a doctorate from the University of California, Davis. He taught at Boise State from 1971 to 2003. His doctoral training was in medieval English literature, but he changed to the field of composition and rhetoric while working at Boise State. In addition to teaching, he served as director of Boise State’s Writing Center and the Writing Across the Curriculum program. He has taught Osher Institute courses on the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Greek tragedy.
Aaron Leonard is the author Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists and A Threat of the First Magnitude—FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration: From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union—1962-1974. He is a regular contributor to the History News Network and Truthout and has written for publications as diverse as Physics World and Canadian Dimension magazines. He earned a bachelor of arts in history from New York University and is currently completing a book on the FBI and the folksingers of the 1940s and 1950s. He lives in Los Angeles.
Dr. Lynn Lubamersky studied history at the University of California, Berkeley and earned a doctorate in history at Indiana University. She is an associate professor in the Department of History at Boise State University and teaches courses in women’s history, the history of the family, and the history of early modern Europe. She has published several articles on noblewomen’s access to political power in the 18th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the English, German, and Russian languages. Her long-term research projects include a history of the multicultural town of Kėdainiai, Lithuania from its establishment in the 14th century to the present.
Dr. Steven S. Maughan earned a doctorate at Harvard University, completing research for his dissertation at King’s College London as a Fulbright Scholar. He has taught in the Department of History at The College of Idaho since 1992 and has held the Bernie McCain Chair in the Humanities since 2013. He returns frequently to Britain both as a co-leader of the London course at The College of Idaho and for his ongoing research which centers on religion, gender, class, and empire in Victorian Britain. He recently published the book, Mighty England Do Good: Culture, Faith, Empire and World in the Missionary Projects of the Church of England, 1850-1915. His current research explores the impact of high church Anglican sisterhoods and on missionary methods and the conduct of the empire.
Dr. Joyce Harvey-Morgan is the organizer of Boise Death Café and related death and dying programs. She is the former dean of Extended Studies at Boise State University and the founder of the Renaissance Institute, which was the predecessor of the Osher Institute.
Paul Nelson recently retired from a senior engineer position at Micron Technology. While at Micron, he worked in the Dynamic RAM Division on new generations of memory chips and taught Python programming courses as well as other topics related to computer-aided design. Paul received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Fresno State University and a master of science in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming. Paul has also worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories designing telecom infrastructure equipment, participated with the future-microprocessor design team at Intel, worked on NASA contracts for science satellites at Ball Aerospace, ran a vocational electronics program for five years at the College of the Sequoias, and was a professor for seven years at Fresno State in the electrical engineering department.
Wendy J. Olson is a partner at Stoel Rives’ litigation practice and a former U.S. attorney for the District of Idaho. She served as a law clerk for U.S. Chief District Court Judge Barbara Rothstein, an assistant to the legal director of the National Church Arson Task Force, and spent four and a half years in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Wendy also served as an assistant U.S. attorney for 13 years and as a U.S. attorney for the District of Idaho for seven years until joining Stoel Rives in 2017. She focuses her practice on government investigations, white collar criminal defense, and civil litigation. Wendy has over two decades of experience prosecuting white collar crime cases along with criminal civil rights violations, child sexual exploitation cases, and Idaho’s only federal death penalty case.
Celeste Miller recently retired from 38 years of practicing law. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable William F. Mauer in Kansas City, Missouri, before moving to Boise. Celeste then practiced civil litigation at Givens, McDevitt, Pursley and Webb before joining the Idaho office of the U.S. Attorney in 1987. There, she served in the civil and criminal divisions of the office and accrued twenty years of federal white collar criminal prosecution experience including work for the United States Trustee Program, a Department of Justice bankruptcy oversight agency. Celeste also prosecuted white collar crimes in the Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Idaho offices of United States Attorneys. She concluded her career in private practice involving civil fraud litigation.
Dr. Bob H. Reinhardt joined Boise State University in 2017 and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History where he teaches, researches, and writes in the fields of environmental history, public history, the history of public health, and the history of the American West. He earned a doctorate from the University of California, Davis, a master of arts from the University of Oregon, and a bachelor of arts with honors from Willamette University. His professional experience includes serving as the executive director of the Willamette Heritage Center, a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University, and teaching positions at Western Oregon University and Willamette University.
Dr. Mary Rohlfing has performed many identities since becoming an Idaho resident in 1980. She has fought forest fires, pumped gas, earned a doctorate, was a tenured associate professor of communication, ran a dump, founded an organic farm specializing in duck eggs, and served as the dean of a community college. At the moment this biography is being written, she is a visiting associate professor of communication at Boise State University. By the time her course is offered, who knows? Mary has taught and written about rock ‘n’ roll at the college level for many years and hopes to continue to do just that.
Lance Thompson is an award-winning consultant of over 500 motion picture advertising campaigns for studios including Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Disney. He currently works as a writer and script doctor. He has written for movies, television, and magazines—The Two Jakes, Mr. Belvedere, and Air & Space Smithsonian, respectively. As an actor, he has appeared on Discovery Investigations’ I Was Murdered, on stage and on screen in Boise, and has hosted two Boise television talk shows.
Dr. Thomas Weingartner is a retired professor of oceanography from the University of Alaska and is now living in Boise. His 40-year research career has focused on ocean physics and has included work in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the North Pacific Ocean.
Carole Whiteleather has been a member of the Treasure Valley’s art scene for over three decades. She has served as the director of education for the Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, the program director for The Cabin, the director of education for the Idaho Shakespeare festival, and spent over fourteen years as a faculty member in Boise State University’s theater arts department. Well-known as an educator, actor, and director, Carole has had a lifelong affair with Shakespeare—both onstage and off.
Chuck Folkner received a bachelor of science in chemical engineering from the University of New Mexico and a master of science in civil engineering from the University of Wyoming. He worked at the Hanford Nuclear Site managing nuclear waste and as a civilian Nuclear Engineer at the U.S. Navy’s Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. At the Shipyard, Chuck was assigned to automate the process of managing radiation dosimeters, despite being unqualified for the job. He continued to take on computer-related work, spending less time at his nuclear engineering desk, and after several years he was transferred to the computing department. In 1997, he was offered a job at the then-relatively-small Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle. With the exception of a brief stint at a dot com internet startup, he spent the rest of his working career at Starbucks in coffee business computing. In 2012, he retired and joined his brother, sister, and mom in decidedly sunnier Boise where he travels, walks the dog, and completes the occasional home project.
Terra Feast is the curator of education at the Boise Art Museum. Terra began her career at the Tucson Museum of Art in Tucson, Arizona. She joined BAM as the associate curator of education in 2005, then became the curator of education in 2009. She earned a bachelor of fine arts from The College of Idaho and a master of arts in art education from Boise State University. In 2015, Terra was named the Idaho Art Educator of the Year.
Ellie McKinnon earned a master of arts with an emphasis in the teaching of writing and worked at Boise State University for 26 years. For 11 of those years, she directed the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and, under her leadership, membership grew substantially. Ellie has taught memoir writing classes and workshops in a number of states for a variety of people, and reports that her most enjoyable teaching experiences have been with members at the Osher Institute at Boise State.
Susan Rowe earned a master of fine arts in creative writing at Boise State University and a master of arts in philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University. Her writing has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, the Brevity Blog, The American Oxonian, Penny, and the book Fighting the World’s Fight: Rhodes Scholars in Oxford and Beyond. Before deciding to write and teach full-time, Susan was a marketing and communications professional for twenty years. She recently finished and is now revising a manuscript of short stories based on the lives of her immigrant grandparents.
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a child class using something like the `super` keyword.
- It would also be really awesome if I could pass a "type" as a parameter.
other ugens, i.e. `MyPiano p => dac`.
issues inherently difficult due to an aspect of ChucK's implementation?
Let me know if I can clarify at all.
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Tom Wheatcroft was a racing fan from his boyhood when he watched the great racing drivers of the day in action at Donington Park in 1937 and 1938. Wheatcroft finished his national service and began to build a hugely successful building empire. By the 1970s he was in a position to indulged his passion for the sport and he established a team to run a Brabham BT30 Formula 2 car for Derek Bell. He also bought a BT26 for a selection of F1 races although it was not very successful. The F2 program, however, was a big success and Bell finished second in the European Championship.The following season Wheatcroft took a lower profile but that year he bought Donington Park to provide a home for his collection of classic racing machinery and as a future home of the British Grand Prix.In 1972 he returned to running teams for another rising star - Roger Williamson - in British Formula 3 and occasional European F2 races. In 1973 there was a full program of European F2 and selected F1 races with the March works team. Williamson's first F1 race was the ill-fated British Grand Prix where he was involved in the famous first lap accident. His second was the Dutch GP. He crashed on the eighth lap, the car coming to rest upside-down and he died in the fire which followed.Wheatcroft continued to back drivers in Formula Atlantic and Formula 2 - notably Brian Henton - but his chief passion became developing Donington Park and his ambition to return Grand Prix racing to the track was fulfilled in 1993 when the European Grand Prix was held there.
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2019-04-23T16:10:59Z
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http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/con-wheat.html
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The Confederation of African Football (Caf) dismissed the Gambia Football Federation's (GFF) appeal over the eligibility of Togo defender Adewale Oloufade and upheld the original decision of its disciplinary board.
Caf had dismissed the GFF's first protest which claimed the player, also known as James, is Nigerian and does not meet the necessary criteria to play for Togo.
Olufade played for Togo as they drew 1-1 with The Gambia on 12 October in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.
The original protest in October stated: "In the match form provided by Togo, his name is listed Adewale Olufade but in the Caf system he is registered as James Adewale Olufade and his date of birth as 21 August 1994."
On Wednesday, Caf confirmed the outcome of the Gambian appeal, and said Olufade was eligible "to represent the Togo national team."
The GFF reacted to the ruling with a brief statement, saying "we have consulted our lawyers for legal advice before our next line of action".
24-year-old Olufade has played club football in both Togo and Cameroon and made his international debut for Togo in a 0-0 draw with Benin in September.
The Gambia are bottom of Group D of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers with Togo just above them thanks to a better head-to-head record.
Both sides are on five points - two adrift of second placed Benin. Algeria have already qualified from the group.
In the final round of Nations Cup qualifier in March, Benin host Togo while The Gambia travel to face Algeria.
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2019-04-26T05:17:50Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47321421
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Skipper Bologna knocked off another Group B giant on the road and took a decisive step towards the Top 16 as it handed Maccabi an 89-99 loss in front of a packed house at Nokia Arena. Matjaz Smodis and Milos Vujanic combined for 51 points, as Skipper boosted its record to 7-4 and bounced Maccabi, which fell to 8-3, from its long first-place tie with CSKA. Smodis got Skipper rolling and finished with 27 points. Vujanic added 24, Carlos Delfino 16 and Tomas Van den Spiegel had 12, while Gianmarco Pozzecco chipped in with 8 points and 10 assists for Skipper. Anthony Parker scored 24 for Maccabi before fouling out, while Sarunas Jasikevicius had 19, Nikola Vujcic 18 and David Bluthenthal 12. Skipper took a five-point edge at halfime and never trailed in the second half, as it knocked down 15 of 26 three-point attempts and limited Maccabi fowards Maceo Baston and Deon Thomas to just 2 points and 5 rebounds combined.
Vujanic got hot early on, hitting a runner and following it with a three-pointer to put Skipper up 11-4. Maccabi's only offensive weapon in the first few minutes was Vujcic, who answered with 4 straight points to keep Maccabi in the picture. Smodis added his own three, but then Parker swished a triple from the corner, and Jasikevicius pulled up on the break to drain another shot from the arc, tying the score at 14-14. Vujanic knocked in yet another triple, and Smodis followed suit before Parker woke the sell-out crowd at Nokia Arena with a dunk on Hanno Mottola, who nonetheless converted a shot inside to keep Skipper ahead 24-23 at the end of the first period.
Both teams made key subs early in the second period. Skipper brought in Spiegel and AJ Guyton for Mottola and Vujanic, while Maccabi sent Thomas and Derrick Sharp in for Baston and Tal Burstein. But the new blood turned the flow of the game into a comedy of errors, turnovers, missed shots, and fouls, as the two top-scoring teams in the Euroleague scored only 2 points each in the next 5 minutes. Skipper finally broke the deadlock with a fastbreak hoop and later a free throw from Erazem Lorbek, and could have jumped ahead thanks to Van Den Spiegel's dominant play in the offensive glass, but he struggled to convert his offensive rebounds and free throws into points. Meanwhile, Maccabi went back to the basics, feeding Vujcic inside to stay within one, 31-32. Smodis and Vujanic came back from the bench to drill a pair of three-pointers and give Skipper a 40-35 halftime lead.
Vujanic continued his hot streak at the start of the second half, sandwiching a pair of threes around a fine assist for a Van Den Spiegel dunk as the visitors silenced the crowd and took a 54-43 lead. However, Jasikevicius, outraged about an offensive foul called against Vujcic, stepped up on the offensive end and cut the deficit to eight, 48-56. Van Den Spiegel continued his dominant play around the basket but unlike the first half, he made his free throws to keep Bologna comfortably in the lead, and then Smodis hit his fourth three of the game to put Skipper up 13. Parker tried to single-handedly carry Tel Aviv back into the game, but Carlos Delfino was up to the challenge. The two traded baskets the end of the period when Jasikevicius nailed a three that brought Maccabi to within 61-70.
Still determined, Jasikevicius came out for the fourth as ready as ever, hitting a short jumper as Maccabi trimmed the score to just 66-71. But Delfino cut through the heart of the Israeli defense to nail a mid-range jumper as the 24-second clock drew to a close, which was like a dagger through the fans' hearts. Guyton followed with a three and Smodis added a jumper to bring the lead back to 12, 70-82. When Gianarco Pozzeco fed Smodis inside to make it 78-91 at the two-minute mark, the home fans started to head home. In the end, Maccabi desperately tried to at least get within seven, to match its win from Bologna for a potential tiebreaker, but even that proved impossible. Two Pozzeco free throws ended the game with Skipper victorious 89-99.
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2019-04-26T16:16:27Z
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http://admin.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=128&seasoncode=E2003%20%20%20%20%20
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Yup noticed that of your videos, quite small and fuzzy. I thot it's becos of your filesize that's why you chose a lower format.
Btw, if you are interested in VideoEditing. There's a free Ulead DVD editing seminar on 14th Nov. I can email you the email separately.
Paiseh..i was jus experimenting with the software and realised i could have made it bigger hehe..I was just too lazy and used to default size my hub had set up not knowing I could play ard with the sizes..I've reuploaded the video...see if it's clearer and bigger on wmv..
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2019-04-24T07:58:45Z
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https://angeliatay.livejournal.com/89056.html?thread=2187744
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deal architect : Unfair to NetSuite?
For a fleeting moment I felt guilty I am not at SuiteWorld. Mark Hurd was talking about shipments from Shanghai and inventory allocations while in transit. I perked up at the webstream. But just as quickly he was talking about recruiting. And his comments were from a decade ago when he was at HP. I went "here we go again - like at Oracle MBX/MCX couple of weeks ago, finance and HCM seem to be Oracle's comfort zone. They are allergic to talking operational applications in the cloud".
The next session I was told to watch was about NetSuite products but the stream did not work. I can see from Albert Pang's tweet they are talking operations "Allison Auclair, VP Product Mgmt of Oracle NetSuite, outlines what it takes to do next-gen manufacturing & retailing, covering everything from sourcing to online selling and from ordering to warehousing in its stepped-up effort to improve commerce & CRM experiences." Just my luck. I will try and watch a replay.
This is the first SuiteWorld I have missed in years. I much prefer analyst summits but NetSuite has never held one - I have asked multiple times. Oracle has moved away from them. I feel I am intruding on customer time when I go to user conferences. When I do go, I like a schedule which has plenty of customer and executive time. Oracle has not been able to deliver that so I have been watching their events from afar. Sorry, NetSuite.
I hope Oracle and NetSuite convene an analyst summit like I requested here. Every one of their competitors does one and they keep getting better each year.
I WILL show up for such a summit. If I am invited, and if the agenda does have operational and vertical functionality.
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2019-04-25T10:55:43Z
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https://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2019/04/unfair-to-netsuite.html
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Video links for ORCA Media/CCTV coverage of Committee hearings – testimony and debate – for S.68 of the 2019-2020 Session.
1. Senate Committee on Government Operations. S.68 – Indigenous People’s Day. Recorded February 28, 2019.
2. House Committee on General, Military, and Civil Affairs. S.68 Indigenous Peoples’ Day recorded April 10, 2019.
From the YouTube channel of the “Year of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas” Cultural Initiative, a program of SUNY Empire State College. For this new virtual residency curriculum, a series of videos has been created with indigenous culture keepers sharing various aspects of their people’s understandings.
In this production, S8gm8 Roger Longtoe Sheehan speaks about the Abenaki relationship with the land and rivers of Ndakinna, and how these interactions take place within their worldview. The interview took place in June, 2018 at the Abenaki Heritage Weekend annual event at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. By request of Vera Longtoe Sheehan, a co-producer of the film, I contributed some still photography from Kchi Pontekw/Bellows Falls, VT for the video.
On January 13, 2019 I was invited by Emily McAdoo, board member, to present at the Putney Mountain Association‘s annual meeting, held at the Putney Community Center on Christian Square. About 100 people attended – PMA members and the general public – and we discussed a Native relationship with place, in this case, of course, Putney Mountain itself. Russ Grabiec from Brattleboro Community Television (BCTV) was there and he graciously filmed the proceedings. This is the first time I’ve used slides throughout to accompany the narrative, and it seemed to be quite helpful. The audio is a little echo-y, due to the large space, but the gist is apparent.
Link to listing on BCTV’s site.
Niswak k8kwak – two porcupines.
Pazgo k8gw mkazid ta pazgo w8bigid – One black porcupine and one white.
The pure, simple song of the white-throated sparrow reminds us of the conversations to be joined outside of our own minds. This was going to be a post observing #NationalBirdDay, then realized it was a rather ludicrous construct. So, I will let sparrow speak for himself.
In English, the song is often described as “Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody” or, if you are a little further north, “Oh Sweet Canada, Canada, Canada.” I grew up having been taught and hearing the “Oh Sam Peabody” mnemonic. Many small birds are now known (in Western Abenaki) simply as “sipsis” (literally small bird), with no surviving differentiation between species. But a number of specific names have persisted into the present, mostly the more common and larger individuals such as crow, robin, blue jay, eagle, and turkey. I wondered if the #Abenaki had an onomatopoetic name for this little songster, a device often employed in the language, given that the song of the white throated sparrow is so memorable. To my joy, I was able to locate it! Father Rasles gives it as “sôhsohseli” – which I might rewrite as “s8soseli” pronounced sohn-SOH-seh-lee. It is a pretty good evocation of the song.
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2019-04-23T04:29:13Z
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https://sokokisojourn.wordpress.com/tag/video/
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Rep. Peter King on Obama's speech on terror: "The tone was wrong"
Coming up this evening at 9, "Piers Morgan Live" welcomes U.S. Representative Peter King to the program.
The former Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security joins Piers Morgan to talk about President Barack Obama's speech on terror earlier today.
"The tone of today's speech, I just thought was wrong." said King. "He's really declaring almost the end of the war against terrorism long before it's over."
"In many ways al Qaeda is more dangerous now than it was prior to September 11. For him to be stepping back and saying that he's going to be somehow reducing the level of drone attacks, that he's going to be releasing more prisoners from Guantanamo, when already we've released the - basically anyone who could be released has been."
"I just think the tone was wrong."
Tune in at 9 as King explains to Morgan why in his opinion, "There's not going to be any easy war."
Piers Morgan.....Where the hell is your gun debate now!!!! and your beautiful safe country and their non-violent crimes!!! The 2 men run a guy down and chop his head off???? You should consider yourself a moron.....how about you go do some news and debate in your country!!!!! If you're still allowed back!!!
Killing every killer after the fact is really getting us somewhere, isn't it?
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2019-04-23T18:13:30Z
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http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/23/rep-peter-king-on-obamas-speech-on-terror-the-tone-was-wrong/?hpt=pm_mid
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iit
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V. D. Lachman, “Moral Courage in Action : Case Studies”, MEDSURG Nursing, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 275-277, 2007.
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2019-04-25T21:39:58Z
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http://ethics.iit.edu/eelibrary/search/site/case%20study?f%5B0%5D=im_field_publication%3A7139
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mtv
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There is no denying that Richard Curtis' new big film of big emotions, “About Time”, is effective. It's a melodramatic slalom course through unrequited love, missed opportunities, true romance, birth and death creating an avalanche of feeling. It is powered by the strong “us against the world” bonds that come from family, particularly that of fathers and sons, and Bill Nighy is, unquestionably, forever one of cinema's coolest Dads with this performance.
But just because you will be reduced to a flayed, raw mess of emotion as the final “life is beautiful” scenes play out, that doesn't mean this is actually, you know, a good movie. Much like a Katy Perry song will get stuck in your head if you hear it enough times at the CVS, it is no indicator of quality. In fact, some might argue that we shouldn't encourage this sort of entertainment product. In fact, that person may be me.
“About Time” opens with a wall of voice over narration introducing us to Tim (Domhnall Gleason), a shy, British “ginger” and his quirky, wealthy family. On his 21st birthday his Dad (Nighy, truly wonderful – the type of performance where every reaction shot is perfect and rich with feeling) pulls Tim aside to explain the family secret. The men in the family have the ability to go back in time. No, they can't kill Hitler, they can go back to points in their own life that they can remember and make specific changes. Problems with the butterfly effect? It's not an issue - and it's not that type of sci-fi movie, anyway. Except when it wants to be, but more on that in a bit.
We then follow Tim on his shaggy dog adventures as a young man. His trick and its opt-in “Groundhog Day” manifestations don't help him woo the summer house guest (Margot Robbie) but it's not for lack trying. When he moves to London, though, and true love presents itself in the Deschanel-esque form of faux-dork Mary (Rachel McAdams) he's able to use his ability to position himself at the optimum moment to let sparks lead to fiery passion.
Tim's travels through time soon morph from “Groundhog Day”-like attempts to “get things right” to a more “Slaughterhouse-Five”-like flattening of the timeline. Strangely, despite a few head-fakes, there isn't one specific quest on which Tim is sent. He's just living his life, but able to do so with the perspective of someone who knows all of this can be changed. It imbues him with a philosophy that allows him to live, dammit, to truly live, and this “World According To” vibe has the potential to be profound, but is ultimately squandered on hackneyed developments.
The film's desultory nature quickly takes its toll. It is fitting that a movie two hour movie about time travel feels more like five. Every emotional highlight of Tim's life is represented, and this includes worn out beats like a bored husband watching his wife try on different dresses before a night on the town. Once the time travel gimmick wears off, the meat of “About Time” is mostly rehashed sit-com material.
There's only so much maudlin sap an individual can take, and “About Time”'s Tim zipping around his life trying to make himself and everyone in his life happy (his teen bedroom wall adorned with an “Amelie” poster, don't'cha know) quickly becomes tedious. Then Bill Nighy shows up and is awesome and punches you in the heart. It ultimately feels like a cheat, and while there won't be a dry eye in the house, it won't be earned.
Now, for those who have just seen “About Time,” or for those who plan to never see it, I will hit you with my annoying nit-picks. These are SPOILERS but they are SPOILERS for the common good.
2 – When Dad jumps back in time at the wedding, why do “we” experience the change? The whole movie is from Tim's point of view. (Oy, that voice over!) But when Dad wants to fix his wedding speech (a fun gag, don't get me wrong) the movie (and, it is implied, Tim) knows about it and changes timelines with it. This is 100% inconsistent with the film, as every previous timeline shift has been from Tim's point of view, with the rest of the world unaware.
3 – Why doesn't Dad save Kit Kat? You think he wants to see his daughter as a drunk getting in car accidents? If we accept the reason why Tim can't do it (more on that in #4) this still doesn't give us a reason why Dad can't do it. He's done having children at this point in his life and his sperm won't change.
4 – Why doesn't Tim (or Dad) age? With all these trips to the past (particularly Dad's, who has spent years in the past) these men should look a lot older than they do. Their bodies are still moving forward in time – indeed, this is a key plot point, explaining why there is “different sperm” in different timelines.
5 – Tim's daughter should be gone, baby, gone. If his sperm changed by going back once, going back a SECOND time (even if to undo what he did) should change it even more.
6 – Dad should have said something about the sperm changes. Come on, Dad!
7 – Dad never said anything about being able to BRING someone along. And yet Tim just grabs Kit Kat and away they fly like Peter Pan. How did Tim know this could work? Or is this just the movie changing things as it goes?
9 – They don't have PDF files in England? Okay, this has nothing to do with time travel, but why did Mary flip out so much when the kids destroyed the writer's manuscript. Was it the only one? Hell no, of course not. More to the point, he was just coming over for an informal chat. What British person wouldn't say “oh, chuff chuff” at a little kid coloring all over a manuscript? Particularly a manuscript that is surely in the clouds and could be reproduced in about 10 minutes using even a slow printer?
10 – Why are all the women either trophies or damsels and why did Tim never tell his true love about his power? Eh, that's not a nit-pick, that's a genuine complaint, and further reminder that this movie isn't very good.
"About Time" will be released in theaters on November 1st.
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2019-04-24T12:07:56Z
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http://www.mtv.com/news/2771115/about-time-review/
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Oh happy days! My story To Have One's Cake, which won the Writers' Forum flash fiction competition in September, has now been picked up by That's Life!, Australia.
I really must hand it to Writers' Forum, their flash fiction competition has led me into doing some highly successful, often last minute, writing. In fact, I had mere hours to ready a piece for their last competition, having picked up my copy of the magazine from my post box at nine in the morning with a four o'clock in the afternoon deadline looming.
In last month's Letters' Page in Writers' Forum, a reader was complaining about the dearth of humorous pieces of writing being competition winners, so I'm going out of my way to turn my hand to humour. The problem, I feel, is that humour is very subjective, to the extent that what one reader finds hilarious, another finds offensive or puerile. Conversely, even if a reader doesn't like the subject matter of a seriously depressing piece of writing, we're more likely to judge it on its literary value than a humorous piece.
Anyhooo, enough of this. I've got some humorous scribblings to do ... or not.
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2019-04-21T10:16:29Z
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https://paulfreeman.weebly.com/new-page/archives/12-2015
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teamunify
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West Suffolk Swimming Club (WSSC) was formed in 1998 from a merger between two local swimming clubs, Bury Beavers and Haverhill Hurricanes. It is fast becoming one of the largest competitive swimming clubs in East Anglia. WSSC puts the swimmers first and with around 340 members, aims to provide an inclusive experience for all swimmers, catering for those who are just out starting on their competitive swimming pathway, through to those competing at National level. The club is led by a 5-person coaching team, with help from a committee and other volunteers that enable the club and its swimmers to reach their full potential.
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2019-04-24T04:24:23Z
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https://uk.teamunify.com/Home.jsp?team=reczzwssc
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yale
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This summer, a group of 90 volunteers traveled to the Philippi Township of Cape Town, South Africa, on a Yale Alumni Service Corps trip, undertaking a broad range of service initiatives. In this first-person account, one of those volunteers, Monisha Merchant ’04 M.B.A., describes her work helping students launch a series of student newspapers.
Item 16 in the Bill of Rights in South Africa states: (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, which includes — (a) freedom of the press and other media; (b) freedom to receive or impart information or ideas; (c) freedom of artistic creativity; and (d) academic freedom and freedom of scientific research.
During the 2018 Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) trip to Cape Town, more than 45 students at three high schools in Philippi Township worked with nine YASC volunteers to exercise their rights to freedom of the press and to impart information. The results were remarkable.
During the five, half-day day sessions, the YASC volunteers provided formal instruction about fact vs. opinion, sections of the newspaper, the roles of the editors and reporters, and the structure of a news story. The students learned how to ask hard-hitting questions during five press conferences, including with AYA Executive Director Weili Cheng and a local politician. We also gave optional homework assignments.
The student reporters came back each day with news stories about people in their neighborhoods, student and faculty achievements, and school policies. The editors huddled together to lay out the stories and provide feedback individually to the reporters.
Within five days, Growling Tigers, The Soph’s Eye, and Zisu Bright Times were born.
With the encouragement and support of Amandla Development, a local nonprofit, and from the organization’s champion teachers, these high school student reporters committed to writing their stories and sharing them with their communities.
The Zisu Bright Times newspaper team members at Zisukhanyo Secondary School, mentored by their teacher, Madoda Gcwadi, recently published their September 2018 issue. The reporters wrote articles about science and poetry competitions, study habits, and an inter-school teachers workshop. In addition, the first female elected as student body president shared her vision via the paper. Inspired by the written word, the Zisu Bright Times team has advocated for school leaders to increase the focus on school-wide literacy and writing programs.
The students came to the YASC sessions to learn journalism fundamentals and launch a newspaper at their respective schools. They left with a greater understanding of the power of media to amplify their community’s stories using their own voices.
Monisha Merchant lives in Concord, Calif., and is the managing director of Lotus Advisory Ltd., a government affairs and management consulting firm. Amandla Development is a Cape Town-based nonprofit founded by Scott Clarke ’02.
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2019-04-26T00:05:36Z
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https://news.yale.edu/2018/10/09/making-difference-cape-town-all-news-thats-fit-share
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illinoistechathletics
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CHICAGO, Ill. - The Illinois Tech baseball team played twice on Tuesday in a make-up doubleheader against Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) foe Edgewood College. Offense was plentiful for Tech (6-9, 2-2 NACC) as the Scarlet Hawks split the day against the Eagles (3-12, 1-3 NACC).
The offense started in the second inning for the Scarlet Hawks, as third baseman Claudio LoBracio doubled to right center. On the same play, an overthrow by the shortstop wound up out of play, allowing both LoBracio and David Navarro to score.
After Tech starter Ian Duke was dominant through the first three innings with four strikeouts, the Eagles were able to figure out the sophomore in the middle innings. After a two-run fourth inning, a bases-clearing double by Edgewood put the visitors ahead 5-2.
Nick Bledsoe would not let the Scarlet Hawks go down without a fight, however, as the sophomore hit solo homers in his next two at-bats, bringing Tech to within one at 5-4 in the seventh.
In the eighth, the Scarlet Hawks put runners on base thanks to a Jacob Sorenson walk, an Orlando Cardenas-Juan single, and Zachary Dickey's third intentional walk of the game. With the bases loaded, an Edgewood wild pitch scored Sorenson to tie the ballgame.
Edgewood, however, saved its best for last, scoring seven runs in the top of the ninth to seal the deal.
Bledsoe not only hit two home runs, but he was also 3-for-4 in the game with his two RBI and two runs scored.
While Dickey was 1-for-2, he was intentionally walked three different times.
Cardenas-Juan (2-for-4), Navarro (2-for-5, double, run), and Sorenson (2-for-4, run, walk) all had multi-hit games.
The Scarlet Hawks picked up right where it left off offensively, scoring five times in the first inning. After Cardenas-Juan scored on an error earlier in the inning, LoBracio hit a three-run homer to right field to make it a 4-0 contest. Later on in the frame, first baseman Ted Howell knocked in Sorenson for Tech's fifth run.
After Edgewood scored on a double steal in the top of the second, the Scarlet Hawks matched the Eagles with another run via an error in the bottom of the inning. Tech added one more in the third on a Dickey single to bring the score to 7-1.
The fifth and sixth innings belonged to the Eagles. Edgewood would counter with a five-run fourth inning and a one-run sixth to tie the ballgame at seven.
As Coach Zeifert turned to his bullpen, Alex Riehman tossed scoreless sixth and seventh innings to keep the Eagles at bay.
In the bottom of the seventh, the Scarlet Hawks would take the lead without needing a hit. Using an error and two walks to load the bases, freshman Darius Jones had a clutch plate appearance, working the count to walk and drive in the go-ahead run. After two runs trotted home via an error one batter later, Dickey followed that up by taking a high fastball over the right field fence, clearing the bases and making the lead 13-7 Scarlet Hawks.
Edgewood would score three in the eighth and hold Tech scoreless in their half, but darkness set in and forced the umpires to rule the game final after eight innings.
Cardenas-Juan was instrumental at the top of the order, going 4-for-6 with three runs scored and three stolen bases.
Dickey went yard and drove in four runs while going 2-for-4 with a run scored.
Bledsoe had another three-hit game (3-for-5) while also scoring a run and drawing a walk.
LoBracio hit a three-run homer.
Tech will play a non-conference game at Elmhurst tomorrow (Wednesday) at Butterfield Park at 6:00 p.m.
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2019-04-24T06:55:41Z
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http://illinoistechathletics.com/sports/bsb/2018-19/releases/20190402zyr7hu
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youtube
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Loosely inspired by Ghost Whisperer, this story is of an 11 year old young girl who must deal with a newly gained skill. This of course happened when the ghostly form of her mother brings her back to life from a death-defying experience. Melissa Garrison has to deal with all the ghosts she sees, even the dangerous ones. How unfortunate she must go through this alone. After all, it was Not A Family Trait.
I'm surprised I haven't done a simple book reading in one video. I suppose it's time to make a new playlist for that stuff now, huh?
Come Along - Pentatonix (Unofficial Dance Number) - Duration: 4 minutes, 4 seconds.
Talkin' Time With Local Potter Artist - Duration: 15 minutes.
A Christmas Melody - Oh, Santa (Fina Strazza Lyrics) - Duration: 3 minutes, 6 seconds.
📻 Talkin Time with Sweet Rascally Rabbit (1st of Many) - Duration: 16 minutes.
Interviewing With Great Biased Talent (hint, hint) - Duration: 30 minutes.
Inside and Out of Your Disability - Duration: 29 minutes.
What Should Her Radio Name Be? - Duration: 25 minutes.
The Show Must Go On For TE243 - Duration: 31 minutes.
The Legend of UW's Husky - Duration: 3 minutes, 34 seconds.
Hello, Radio World! It's Me... um, TE243? - Duration: 15 minutes.
Game Theory Merch Surprise - Duration: 51 seconds.
Thank You, Beautiful MU Students! - Duration: 37 seconds.
Mister Heat Miser Lyrics - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Duration: 4 minutes, 21 seconds.
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Please enjoy the book. I had a lot of fun reading it to you, especially with the accents and the languages I murdered - except maybe Italian. Lol.
Long Live Menavia part 1 - Duration: 14 minutes.
Long Live Menavia part 2 - Duration: 20 minutes.
Long Live Menavia part 3 - Duration: 17 minutes.
Long Live Menavia part 4 - Duration: 21 minutes.
Long Live Menavia part 5 - Duration: 25 minutes.
Long Live Menavia part 6 - Duration: 22 minutes.
Long Live Menavia part 7 - Duration: 26 minutes.
Long Live Menavia Part 8 - Duration: 22 minutes.
Long Live Menavia Part 9 - Duration: 22 minutes.
Long Live Menavia part 10 - Duration: 20 minutes.
Long Live Menavia part 11 - Duration: 27 minutes.
Long Live Menavia part 12 - Duration: 21 minutes.
As of June 2014, I will be re-reading this book under a different title. To make things easier, I combined two videos to make up for the Part 6 I didn't work on.
Here are the correct times to go to for the videos NOT marked Book Reading.
10/14 -- 18 minutes 10 seconds.
A Month Later, And Still 201 Strong! - Duration: 22 minutes.
Book Reading: Part of Your World Parts 1 - 3 - Duration: 20 minutes.
10,2,11 Book Reading: Part of Your World part 4 - Duration: 22 minutes.
10,5,11 Book Reading: Part of Your World part 5 - Duration: 22 minutes.
Book Reading: Part of Your World Part 6 - Duration: 9 minutes, 22 seconds.
10,15,11 Book Reading: Part of Your World part 7 - Duration: 28 minutes.
10,19,11 Book Reading: Part of Your World Part 8 - Duration: 28 minutes.
10,27,11 Book Reading: Part of Your World Part 9 - Duration: 24 minutes.
11/6/11 Book Reading: Part of Your World part 10 - Duration: 14 minutes.
11,7,11 Book Reading: Part of Your World part 11 (Read Descrip) - Duration: 14 minutes.
11,8,11 Book Reading: Part of Your World part 12 - Duration: 14 minutes.
11/13/11Book Reading Part of Your World part 14 - Duration: 15 minutes.
Includes A Cinderella Tale, The Wizard's Friends, The Leatherby Adventures (Book 1), and future books that will be added.
12/13/11 Book Reading: Leatherby Adventures 1, part 1 - Duration: 15 minutes.
12/16/11 Book Reading: Leatherby Adventures 1, part 2 - Duration: 15 minutes.
12/18/11 Book Reading: Leatherby Adventures 1, part 3 - Duration: 13 minutes.
12/20/11 Book Reading: Leatherby Adventures 1, part 4 - Duration: 11 minutes.
12/22/11 Book Reading: Leatherby Adventures 1, part 5 - Duration: 15 minutes.
12/24/11 Book Reading: Leatherby Adventures 1, part 6 - Duration: 10 minutes.
12/28/11 Book Reading: Leatherby Adventure 1, part 7 - Duration: 15 minutes.
12/30/11 Book Reading: Leatherby Adventures 1, part 8 - Duration: 14 minutes.
A Cinderella Tale part 1 - Duration: 25 minutes.
A Cinderella Tale part 2 - Duration: 18 minutes.
A Cinderella Tale part 3 - Duration: 21 minutes.
Vlog/A Cinderella Tale part 4 - Duration: 22 minutes.
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The official YouTube channel of Kristin Chenoweth: We sing because we can't speak anymore.
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Creatopath | /cre-ate(8)-oh-path/ (noun) 1. A method of inspiring a dormant mind using food, books, paper, embellishments, paint, material and thread.
Dying for Cake is Brisbane author Louise Limerick’s first novel and has The Australian Women’s Weekly Great Read sticker on the front.
And a great read it was! The title caught my attention straight away and I couldn’t put it down.
“Life has taken an unexpected turn for the women in a mothers’ coffee group. Baby Amy has disappeared, and her mother, Evelyn, broken and distant in a psychiatric hospital, won’t utter a word.
All of the characters where intriguing and each had their own problems to deal with as well as trying to help Evelyn out of her trance so she would open up about what had happened to her baby.
Plenty of twists and turns and an interesting ending!
It’s the 28th Challenge for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers hosted by Priceless Joy! Thanks to Dawn M Miller for the lovely photo.
As Tamara jogged through the rainforest she became aware that someone was close behind her. The hairs on her arms bristled as she felt their breath on the back of her neck.
A hand touched her shoulder. Startled, Tamara turned around. She glanced at the woman who had tapped her, then took a step back, scanning the area for help, if need be.
The woman, dressed in a metallic black suit was staring at Tamara and when Tamara gazed into her eyes, it was like looking into a mirror, except she had black hair, not blonde.
Standing beside her was a young girl, about six years old. Tamara gasped, barely able to contain her grief, as the girl resembled her own daughter who had drowned when she was two years old.
The woman spoke and Tamara was shocked to hear her own voice.
As Tamara crossed the bridge, the serene rainforest faded away and Tamara found herself in the hustle and bustle of a parallel universe.
Click here for more flash fiction.
From the 22nd August to the 28th August it was Book Week and many school students celebrated by dressing up as their favourite character and participating in lots of fun literacy activities. My daughter dressed up as Hermione from Harry Potter. The theme this year was Books light up our World.
We are celebrating Book Week next week with a movie day, bringing in our favourite book, bringing in our most unusual book, dress up day, writing competitions with sizzling starts, Indigenous Storytelling and a Spelling Bee Competition, so lots to look forward to.
If you would like to see The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year Award Shortlist, click here.
While away on a long weekend in Noosa visiting my husband’s sister and her family from London I managed to finish my book club book -The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.
I loved it. It’s a light, humorous, easy to read story about Don Tillman, an awkward and straight to the point genetics professor and Rosie Jarman, a barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father.
Don Tillman is getting married.
The Wife Project will solve that problem. He has designed a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker,a drinker or a late-arriver.
Rosie Jarman is all of these things. She is also fiery and intelligent and beautiful.
All the characters in the story have their own funny mannerisms and I laughed the whole way through, especially at Don’s inappropriate comments and awkward moments.
I hope the movie goes ahead – would be great to watch.
I’m not sure what our next book will be – possibly “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
What’s everyone else reading at the moment?
Frantic, Velma scanned her crowded shelves, studying every little bottle of herb, spice and potion. Nothing rang a bell.
Almost in tears, the final ingredient appeared before her. Velma poured in the liquid and the water frothed and bubbled. She sucked up the potion into her pipette and gently squeezed open the mouse’s mouth.
Thankfully, within seconds the mouse transformed back to its regular form – Velma’s daughter.
Click here to read more flash fiction.
I would like to say sorry, it’s taken me so long to write this post and thank you to Francesca from A Smith’s World for nominating me for these awards (Versatile Blogger, Real Neat Blog Award, and the Premio Dardos Award).
If you are given a magic seed, you can throw it in the ground and it will grow whatever you want, what would it be? A 3-course meal tree – no more cooking dinners!
Things that make you tick? Helping others, creating things.
Things that drive you to reach your goals. My kids and wanting to succeed.
5. What makes a good day? Getting things done, lots of laughter and hugs, a bit of reading and a bit of writing.
Thanks Rochelle for hosting Friday Fictioneers and to Stephen Baum for this week’s photo prompt.
As Ollie’s eyes adjusted to the dark he could just make out a large tank of leaves and twigs.
Suddenly, a large hairy body scurried in front of his face. Ollie screamed and stumbled back, crashing into another glass tank. He spun around and saw hundreds of tarantulas.
Ollie felt the colour drain from his face. At the bottom of the tank was the treasure he’d been searching for. Slowly, he placed his arm into the tank and slid the coins up the glass. Job completed, Ollie bolted towards the exit and tumbled out into the moonlight.
Thanks to Lyndal at Delia Writes for inviting me on the IC Blog Tour. I have been following “Delia Writes” for some time now and her exciting journey to self-publication. “Delia’s Perfectly Pink Earmuffs” has now been published and printed and is a gorgeous children’s picture book.
The IC Blog’s focus is ‘A great way to elevate meaningful conversation and connections!’ For more information about Insightful Communications Publishing click here.
Below is a set of questions I have answered, that I hope will assist in the writing journey.
1. What are your tips for creating meaningful content?
I have a little notebook that I write down quotes, ideas, things that I read or hear on the news or in a movie or things that my friends/family say that might fit into one of my stories one day.
A few years ago I participated in Katherine Battersby’s How to Write a Children’s Book and I also participated in Blogging 101 where I learnt new skills about blogging and writing. Every year I attend the CYA conference in Brisbane to listen to authors tell their story of what/how they write and their journey to publication and as well as meeting lots of lovely authors, I always pick up lots of tips and new ideas.
2. Books: Everyone has a story, some a book. If you’ve written a book, what was your creative process? What encouragement would you give others just beginning their book writing journey?
After I’d written a couple of children’s picture book manuscripts I sent them to an editor for a manuscript appraisal and she was very helpful, informing me about the structure of a picture book and what she liked/disliked about my stories. She said, “You’ve got some really good ideas, you just don’t know how to write.” I was horrified at first but these were my first attempts so I worked hard to improve them.
I then started entering stories in writing competitions – the feedback is invaluable and after a few years it was great to achieve a first place, second place and third place – built up confidence and encouraged me to keep on going. I also submitted stories to anthologies and magazines. There’s always somebody looking for flash fiction, poems, short stories and there are loads of writing competitions out there too.
I try to attend writing courses, book launches and author talks whenever I can. I have found that a lot of these are free through my local libraries. Following other writers’ blogs is another way to learn new things and stay in touch with what’s going on in the world of writing and publishing.
I’m also a member of Creative Kids’ Tales and they have competitions, tips for writing and highlight emerging authors and illustrators.
Lastly, every year I submit one or two stories into the ASA Mentorship Program Award, hoping to be allocated a mentor to help me get my story up to a publishable standard.
3. What advice would you give your younger self?
Don’t give up – keep on writing. Even if nobody else ever reads it, it’s still fun and creative and I know my kids love my stories anyway!!
4. What are you working on now, and how can we, as a community, help?
I am still working on my junior fiction chapter book that I started 3 years ago and I’m also having a go at writing a YA novel (started it last November during NaNoWriMo) and hope to finish it this November.
I’ve been thinking about applying for a grant so I can do a paid mentorship program so if anyone has any tips about applying for a grant I’d love to hear about them.
Thanks for reading. If you’d like to join the tour and inform people about your writing please do and link back here.
If you’re looking for beautiful handmade things have a look at Tabitha’s blog, The Sewing Nook, She is very talented and crafty and is always making adorable bags, hair accessories and bunting. In her post “A sneak peak and re-purposing jeans” she used scraps of denim to make a gorgeous purse and cosmetic bag.
During my time off I cut up two pairs of old denim jeans (from the op shops) and made two handbags, a denim skirt for my daughter and a denim skirt for myself. I haven’t finished the two skirts yet or my handbag, however, the handbag I made for Miss 9 is complete.
* First of all I cut the legs off the jeans (just under the zip). The top halves are easily turned into handbags (side seams are already sewn so it’s just the bottom to sew up and you can decorate with pockets/flowers/stripes etc and add the straps).
* The material from the legs was used to make the skirts.
* I cut off the pretty floral embroidery at the bottom of the jeans to make pockets for Miss 9’s handbag and pockets for Miss 5’s skirt.
* I neatened off the edges to make the pockets and added some pretty pink ribbon, then attached the pockets to the front of the handbag.
* Then I turned the bag inside out so right sides were together and stitched up the bottom.
* Using material from the legs I cut 4 long rectangles to make the straps – sewed them right sides together and then turned them back in the right way to sew to the inside of the bag.
* And… Voila! Miss 9’s bag was ready. She loves it and has taken it to the movies a few times as it’s big enough to hold a water bottle, snacks and a small cardigan.
Now to finish my handbag and the two skirts!!
What crafty creations have you been making?
Thanks to Priceless Joy for hosting Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers and to Sonya for the photo.
No one really knows what happened to Mr Kendall, the eccentric old man who lived in the big mansion on the corner, but there was certainly a lot of speculation.
Some say the devil possessed his body and mind and he stabbed himself to death in a fit of rage. Others say he was murdered in his sleep by his treacherous family, in order to steal his large inheritance.
They say that some nights, especially when the moon is full, you can see the ghost of Old Man Kendall, wandering aimlessly through the graveyard, his arms held out in front of him, caressing each gravestone with his bony fingers, searching….
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Ritinder Kaur is a Technical Content Writer at SQAWORX Solutions Pvt. Ltd. ; they provide quality software testing and technical support services for organisations using information technology globally. She is an avid reader and likes sharing information about topics related to the IT world. She believes that costantly learning, unlearning and then learning anew - building new skills as we go - is the new age mantra.
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Americans support imposing tougher sanctions on Russia for its aggressiveness in sovereign Ukraine but by a 2-1 margin oppose any U.S. military aid to the embattled government in Kiev, poll results released Monday show.
The report by the Pew Research Center coincided with an announcement by the Obama administration that it had expanded its list of sanctions targets to add seven more Russian officials and 17 Russian companies with close ties to President Vladimir Putin.
The Pew/USA Today poll conducted over the weekend found 53% of the 1,501 Americans surveyed were in favor of stepping up economic and diplomatic sanctions on Moscow for its March annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and reported instigation of the separatist actions roiling eastern Ukraine.
But 62% of those polled said they were opposed to sending arms or other military aid to Ukraine, more than twice the 30% who backed providing defense help to Ukrainians trying to hold their country together.
The strong opposition to even indirect military intervention may reflect Americans' war-weariness after the deadly and expensive U.S. deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years.
Less than half those questioned said they were well informed about the tension between the two former Soviet republics and 20% said they knew nothing about it.
The poll also found respondents divided on how important Russia's behavior in Ukraine was to U.S. interests. Less than a third, 31%, said that what happened between Russia and Ukraine was "very important" to the United States; 36% said events there were "somewhat important"; and 29% said the faraway conflict was of little or no importance to American interests.
Only modest partisan differences were identified by the pollsters: 55% of those who identified themselves as Democrats supported tougher sanctions on Russia, while 58% of those who said they were Republicans wanted more punishment of Moscow's actions.
The sole question eliciting a clear political division asked how respondents evaluated President Obama's handling of the crisis. Of the Republicans surveyed, 55% said Obama hadn't been tough enough on Russia, while 56% of Democrats said he was handling the situation "about right."
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2019-04-25T01:27:37Z
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[hypothesis] （By Dionysius of Halicarnassus） The Deme of Erchia is summoned before the court by one of its members who has been rejected by its vote and who pleads that he is being unjustly disfranchised. A law had been passed by the Athenians ordering that a revision should be made of the lists of citizens according to demes, and that anyone who was rejected by the votes of his fellow-demesmen should no longer enjoy the rights of citizenship; those, however, who were unjustly rejected had the right to appeal to the court by summoning the members of the deme, and, if they were again excluded, they were to be sold as slaves and their property confiscated. It is under this law that Euphiletus, having summoned the demesmen of Erchia on the ground that they had unjustly rejected him, instituted the present case. The facts have been already skilfully set forth and confirmed by witnesses. The following passage, in which the orator seeks to confirm the evidence, is composed, in my opinion, with consummate skill, but the reader must decide for himself whether my judgement of it is correct.
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Part of the Being Human Festival of the Humanities 2018-19.
This event takes place at the Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, LS1 3AA.
University of Leeds researchers Maria Kapsali and Scott Mclaughlin, in conjunction with Leeds Art Gallery and the Being Human Festival present 'Sonic Bodies'; an immersive and interactive exploration of sculpture through movement and listening.
You will be invited to follow the lines, shapes or themes of selected sculptures, and generate, as a result of your movement, a real-time soundscape.
As our primary encounter with art is often limited to seeing, Sonic Bodies aims to directly involve the other senses and create a playful and intuitive experience free of cultural expectations and notions of expertise.
Using custom software on mobile devices, the activity offers two innovative ways to explore art through listening and moving: one involving the whole body and the other using only the hand. Both ways are suitable for all ages and abilities.
During the event, each hour is dedicated to a different exploration.
For those who feel compelled to reach out, those who - either by necessity or choice - keep their eyes closed, those who want to play, and those who can't keep still.
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Annual $500 prize to the best book in socio-legal history.
Annual prize of $5000 “for excellence in scholarship in the field of American Legal History by a junior scholar.” Graduate students, law students, and untenured junior faculty are eligible. Separate awards of $2500 are also given for excellence in articles and dissertations, with preference given to the colonial and early national periods. (See Cromwell Article Prize and Cromwell Dissertation Prize) Articles published in Law and History Review are not eligible for the Cromwell Article Prize.
Annual award for the best article in Law and History Review.
Annual award for the best article in English legal history.
Annual award to the best dissertation in law and society. Cash award of $500.
Annual awards, one to an undergraduate and one to a graduate student, for an interdisciplinary research paper addressing some aspect of law and society. Cash award of $500.
Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition: Annual competition offered by the American Association of Law Libraries. Open to students currently enrolled in accredited graduate programs in library science, law, history, and related fields. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. The winner will receive a $500 prize and up to $1,000 for expenses to attend the AALL Annual Meeting.
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Oddly Normal | Adventures in Boogieville.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 at 11:31 am and posted in Child Rearing, gender, Gender Gibberish. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
“Because if there’s one thing worse than being hated for who you are, it’s being hated for who you’re not.” Well said!
Now, if the rest of the world would get with the program.
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For the weekly photo challenge, “Dialog.” I had to do it.
Thanks! 😆 It was the first thing that popped into my mind as I sat in the backyard looking at that mono-log in our fire pit. 😆 It needed a friend.
We love to travel and share photos and tidbits of our trips. We consider it a privilege to travel, and are very grateful to the LORD for any opportunity to do so. And while we're out and about, if we happen to cross your path, please stop and swap howdies with us! We love to visit with folks along the way.
a thousand thanks a thousand times, y’all!
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We’re one of the top 15 public schools in the North and the top regional college in the North from Maine for graduates with least debt, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2018 Best Colleges List.
We’re one of 20 institutions nationwide participating in the Competency-Based Education Network, funded by the Lumina Foundation, and we’re helping to shape the learning approach and give others a blueprint for developing their own CBE programs.
Our Maine Solar System Model stretches 54 miles, from the 50-foot-diameter sun on campus to the one-inch-diameter dwarf planet Eris in Topsfield, making it the biggest solar system model in the Western Hemisphere and a significant summertime tourist attraction.
We’re proud to be the home to a number of Mitchell Scholars and Gauvin Scholars (through the Aroostook Aspirations Initiative).
We’re the northernmost spot on the Langlais Art Trail. Our gift from the Kohler Foundation, Inc., of more than 800 art pieces by renowned artist Bernard “Blackie” Langlais, makes UMPI the premiere research facility for those who want to study Langlais’ artistic process.
We’re the recipient of the New England Board of Higher Education’s 2016 Maine State Merit Award for our Personalized Learning initiative. Our effort, with support from the Davis Educational Foundation, is transforming our curriculum to a more personalized approach to delivering instruction and assessing student learning.
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Evictions have begun at the housing development in Delft illegally occupied by backyard dwellers, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction campaign said on Tuesday morning.
A Cape High Court judge on Monday refused the more than 1Â 000 squatters leave to appeal against an earlier eviction order.
The houses are meant for residents of an informal settlement being cleared to make way for the government’s flagship Gateway housing project alongside the N2 highway.
Anti-eviction campaign spokesperson Pamela Beukes said security officials and police began moving furniture out of the Delft houses at about 6.30am on Tuesday and loading it on to trucks.
“They’ve taken a couple of people’s stuff away on the trucks already and we don’t know where to,” she said.
She said that after the first few evictions, people further down the line were removing their more valuable possessions from the houses and storing them in a nearby field.
They were then going back to stand in front of “their” houses to wait for the eviction.
Beukes said police were setting up razor wire around the houses which had already been cleared.
The campaign earlier appealed to Delft residents not to resort to violence.
On Monday, Judge Deon van Zyl ruled that the grounds were altogether without merit and that no other court would reach a conclusion different to his.
In the course of argument, lawyers Andre Coetzee and William Booth, acting for the occupiers, contended that the process of allocation of houses left much to be desired.
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To be considered for admission to the DMD program at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, an applicant must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in the USA or Canada, or be enrolled in a course of study that will result in the awarding of the degree before matriculation into the DMD program.
Applicants who completed their bachelor’s degree more than two years before expected dental school attendance are advised to pursue academic activities, research, or employment in the oral health field to maintain and strengthen preparation for a dental school curriculum.
Boston University requires that all prerequisites be completed prior to matriculation. At the time of submission of the application, it is understood that some prerequisites are pending completion. In the AASDAS application, list your planned courses.
Although most of the prerequisite courses are science-based, an applicant may be enrolled in any major.
Credits from an accredited four-year U.S./Canadian college or university should match or exceed the prerequisite requirement in biology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics.
Up to 30 credits of community college work will be accepted, but community college coursework may not be applied to science prerequisites (biology, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physics). Science prerequisite courses must be completed at a four-year U.S./Canadian college or university. If you have community college science credits, you should take upper-level courses in the relevant field of study at a four-year institution to earn sufficient prerequisite credits in the topic. It is not necessary to re-take the basic course at a four-year institution if you have advanced coursework in the topic from a four-year institution.
Advanced Placement credit is not accepted toward the science prerequisites. Applicants who received college credit and/or placed out of prerequisite courses because of AP credits must either retake those courses at an accredited four-year United States or Canadian institution or take an equal number of credits in upper-level coursework in the same discipline at a four-year institution.
Advanced Placement credits will be accepted for English and math prerequisites if the degree-granting institution awarded college credit toward the bachelor’s degree.
Prerequisite courses should be taken at an accredited, four-year United States or Canadian college or university. Community college coursework may not be applied to science prerequisites.
A bachelor’s degree from an accredited, four-year United States or Canadian college or university is a requirement for enrollment at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine.
The Admissions Committee strongly suggests that the following courses be taken to ensure a competitive application.
Biology with lab 3 semesters (9-12 credits) or 4 quarters Advanced Placement credits do not fulfill the Biology prerequisite: upper-level Biology college courses can be used to fulfill the prerequisite credit requirement. Refer to the list of suggested biological science courses, below.
General (Inorganic) Chemistry with lab 2 semesters (6-8 credits) or 3 quarters Advanced Placement credits do not fulfill the General Chemistry prerequisite: upper-level Inorganic Chemistry college courses can be used to fulfill the prerequisite credit requirement.
Organic Chemistry with lab 2 semesters (6-8 credits) or 3 quarters Advanced Placement credits do not fulfill the Organic Chemistry prerequisite: upper-level Organic Chemistry college courses can be used to fulfill the prerequisite credit requirement.
Courses including general principles of physical laws and phenomena: mechanics, light, heat, sound, electricity, radiation.
Advanced Placement credits do not fulfill the Physics prerequisite: upper-level Physics college courses can be used to fulfill the prerequisite credit requirement.
Advanced Placement credits will be accepted if the degree-granting institution awarded college credit toward the bachelor’s degree.
At least one calculus course is required.
A statistics course will fulfill the second mathematics course requirement.
University-designated writing intensive courses will also satisfy this requirement. A course description will be required at time of interview.
For applicants who have AP credits for Introductory Biology, a selection of advanced biological science courses may be used toward the prerequisite requirements. Note that prerequisite science courses must include lab.
Upper-level biological sciences courses taken in addition to prerequisite course credits enhance an applicant’s preparation for dental school.
*Biochemistry may count toward biology or chemistry prerequisites, depending on the departmental designation of the course.
Etc. Applicants, especially science majors, are encouraged to include a variety of courses in their undergraduate program. Exploration of diverse subject areas and perspectives contributes to a broad knowledge base and enhances critical-thinking skills.
In considering applications, the Admissions Committee places primary emphasis on an applicant’s undergraduate record. The successful completion of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year U.S. or Canadian college or university is a requirement for matriculation into Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. Applicants who are admitted during their final year of undergraduate study must demonstrate successful completion of the bachelor’s degree prior to matriculation in the DMD program. The committee takes into account the applicant’s scores on the Dental Admissions Test, as well as factors such as the quality and difficulty of courses taken, demonstrated leadership ability, and motivation for the study of dentistry. Applicants’ personal statements submitted as part of the AADSAS application and letters of recommendation are important elements in the evaluation.
The applicant has the opportunity to describe extra-curricular and co-curricular experiences in the AADSAS application, including observation of dental professionals (“shadowing experience”), involvement in community through employment or volunteering, and research experience.
The Admissions Committee contacts selected applicants regarding interview invitations. A personal interview is required for consideration for admission. Interviews are scheduled starting in October. A personal interview does not guarantee acceptance.
A tour of the dental school is included in the interview day; tours are available only to invited applicants.
Applicants may check the status of their application online through the AADSAS website. During the admissions season, the status portal is updated weekly by Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine Admissions. If no status information shows for an applicant’s Boston University application, it means that the applicant’s materials are under review and no decision has been reached.
Applicants are notified of the committee’s decision no earlier than December 1. Decision notifications are sent from December through July. If an applicant has not yet received a decision, it means that the application is under consideration.
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The Centre for the History of European Discourses (CHED) at the University of Queensland (Australia) is looking for well-qualified and innovative postdoctoral researchers (no more than 5 years out of their PhD by June 30, 2015) whom it can support as applicants to the University of Queensland’s Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme, which offers full-time research-only positions for a period of three years beginning in January 2016. We are particularly interested in candidates specialising in the history of sexuality/history of medicine. A team of researchers within the Centre, including Professor Peter Cryle and Dr Karin Sellberg, is currently working on topics in the intellectual and cultural history of sexuality.
Interested researchers should send their CV and a brief (200 word) outline for a project to Peter Cryle ([email protected]) and Karin Sellberg ([email protected]) by 8th February or as soon as possible thereafter.
a relatively established record of publication in the field.
For further information, please visit CHED’s website http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/ or contact Peter Cryle ([email protected]) and Karin Sellberg ([email protected]).
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https://www.disabilitystudiesnetwork.gla.ac.uk/2015/02/06/university-of-queenslands-postdoctoral-fellowship-history-of-medicinehistory-of-sexuality/
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The Body Shop Body Sorbet – amandarobots.
The Body Shop has gone sorbet cray for summer, with sorbet for face and body. More on the former later; more on the latter now.
If, like me, you’re asking what a body sorbet is, I’ll try to describe it, but I make no promises at coherency. You see, although I’ve been using this product for a few weeks now, I still struggle to describe it each time I apply it.
It’s supposed to be a cooling, light-but-still-very-hydrating body moisturizer. Upon application, it feels like a bunch of tiny semi-solid gel-beads gliding over the skin until it sinks in – in seconds flat. If you haven’t tried this stuff, that description will make little sense to you. But if you have, you’ll know it’s as close to properly describing it as it gets.
In the summer, my legs go from flaky, dry, and painful to wonderfully low-maintenance. They go from needing the heaviest body butter I can wrangle to just a light moisturizer, and this sorbet stuff is perf. It’s so light that seconds after application it’s undetectable on the skin – no stickiness, no greasiness. Just perfectly moisturized skin and a lovely smell.
It currently comes in 5 flavours: mango, moringa, pink grapefruit, strawberry, and satsuma.These are TBS’s freshest scents, and are therefore most conducive to sorbetifying. I’m hoping there will be more soon, though – off the top of my head, a raspberry one and perhaps a lemon one would be great.
What impresses me most about these is the incredibly unique formula. It’s that formula that prompts me to say that, if you haven’t tried them, wait for The Body Shop to have a sale and pick one up!
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https://amandarobots.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/the-body-shop-body-sorbet/
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This is another book I would have been unlikely to have read unless I had been given it. Once again, it is more narrative non-fiction that history per se. It tells the story of four soldiers, members of the original BEF who were trapped behind enemy lines in 1914 during the retreat from Mons. In microcosm it tells the tale of the many men in similar positions although none appear to have suffered quite such an extraordinary fate.
Like many, they were sheltered by French villagers, only in their case was their fate stranger. Many of these soldiers did not last long – the villagers, believing the threats of the occupying Germans (often with good reason) handed them over, or the soldiers themselves surrendered. But not our four. They survived until May 1916 when they were eventually betrayed and shot as spies. This isn’t giving away anything – it’s on the blurb on the cover of the book.
What I found with this book, even more than with the Janet Morgan I reviewed recently, is that it reads almost like a novel. While these soldiers were real people, they are treated like characters in a plot, and the narrative as if it were a tragedy complete with hero and fatal flaw. The only problem I have with this is that it is being presented in some objective sense as ‘true’ when in fact it’s nothing of the kind. It’s very readable, and very sad, but I’m not sure that it’s history.
I know that some of you who read this blog are either historians or have an interest in history, and I would welcome your views on this type of writing.
This entry was posted in History, Non-fiction, Reviews, WW1. Bookmark the permalink.
I like stories like this if only because they spawn greater interest in the actual historical events.
That’s true of some readers, although I would doubt it’s the case for many readers of say, regency romances. 🙂 But my point was that this is not historical fiction, and I wouldn’t necessarily expect the book to be aimed at the readers of such, but at those interested in the Great War.
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https://only2rs.wordpress.com/2006/07/17/if-i-should-die-a-foreign-field-by-ben-macintyre-2002/
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'Detailed by Bureau of Plant Industry, TJ. S. Department of Agriculture.
Transcript % V A. E. Form 18. *vV * c« PURDUE UNIVERSITY '< ^ . Department of Agricultural Extension G. I. CHRISTIE, Superintendent LaFayette, Indiana, December, 1911 The Germination of Flower and Garden Seeds By Lovina S. Merick.* Seed Analyst Nothing is of more value to a farmer than a good garden. A good garden is an impossibility without good seeds. Good, pure seed should demand the attention of every farmer and gardener. The handy packet seed is more generally used than bulk seed. Why? Because less time and thought are needed to purchase packets from local grocery than to order by mail from seed-house. As a matter of fact, packet seeds are very often old and low in vitality and germinate poorly. In comparing the germination of seeds from bulks with those from packets it was found that bulk seeds averaged over 25 per cent higher than packet seeds. Look this circular over carefully and see whether or not you can be benefited. 'Detailed by Bureau of Plant Industry, TJ. S. Department of Agriculture.
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http://e-archives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/AESLeaflet/id/56/rec/17
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I was wondering whether anyone had experience with getting tickets for the Zags @ BYU game. The few tickets that I can find now are up in the rafters. I'm not a member of the Bulldog Club. I just figured this would be a great week to schedule a ski trip to Park City, and it conveniently overlaps with the Zag show. If anyone has any helpful tips or past experience that they'd be able to share, that would be greatly appreciated! I'd love to be in attendance as the Zags shore up an undefeated WCC season, against the raucous crowd in Provo, no less.
Skiing in Utah is about as good as it gets.
Yes their fans were very annoying... probably the angriest group of people I've ever been around. They think every time a non-BYU player touches the ball it's a travel. Not exaggerating.
I guess it can get frustrating pretending your football/basketball programs are top notch when in reality they are both mediocre at best.
I just buy directly through their website, I believe tickets go on sale on 10/22. I go every year since I have family in the area, usually the seats are farther up but last year I was fortunate to get dead center about 15 rows up.
Away games are fun, especially when you are watching with 20k people who hate your guts.
For the last couple years now, the SLC Alumni Chapter has organized a pre-game social and busses from SLC down to Provo (about a 45 minute drive) and back after the game. Packages with game tickets, plus admission to the social and bus ride, should be available for purchase through the SLC Chapter soon.
The game tickets are not great (upper deck), but having been to these games several times, sitting with the group of Zags fans is far preferable than sitting in a sea of BYU'ers ... As has been mentioned above, that stadium is not a very friendly place.
I am pretty sure things got tense for Jakester and I one year, can't remember if it would have gotten physical or not? The seats were decent, too. Having lived with BYU fans for a long time, it's pretty much the way it is. I think more than anything, they expected to be Big 5 bound, and when reality hit, and they realized they weren't going to be the best in the conference, it created some extra cognitive fan dissonance.
Yeah I was involved in a couple nasty exchanges in Provo last year. It's easy to shut them down, though, when their basketball program is barely relevant. I would just say "you've been to one sweet 16 in the last 35 years" and they had a hard time turning it around on me. Never been exposed to a fanbase with less knowledge of the sport they're watching.
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2019-04-19T04:40:19Z
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http://guboards.spokesmanreview.com/archive/index.php/t-54788.html?s=bf7778245fbc8101f237eeac2a9d0109
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Ariel Nickell has been named this week’s Female Athlete of the Week. Nickell has had a sensational week as the senior reached the 2,000-Point Club at Alice Lloyd College, joining some elite company. She is only the second woman to be added to the club in the history of the College’s basketball program.
The Lady Eagles took on Alabama’s Selma University on Friday, November 15th, as part of the Milligan College Classic. The forward had 27 points in the win, which vaulted her onto the 2,000-point plateau. She also had 16 rebounds, giving her yet another double-double on the season.
Alice Lloyd battled Carroll College out of Montana in game two of the Classic on Saturday, November 16th. In that contest, Nickell tallied a hard-earned double-double with 18 points and 10 boards.
In Friday’s (November 22nd) four-point loss to Ohio Christian University on the road, Nickell produced some massive numbers, scoring 35 points and corralling 17 rebounds. She also had 3 steals and 2 assists.
Nickell is averaging 28 points and 13.8 rebounds per game on the season. The Tazewell, Tennessee native leads all of NAIA Division II in points and rebounds.
The Lady Eagles return to action on December 3rd when they travel to Kentucky Christian University for a game that tips at 5:30 PM.
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http://www.alc.edu/2013/11/nickells-history-making-week/
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Just got a email from NCK, we are going to have a practice day Friday April 18th and race on Saturday the 19th. WooHoo! We need everybody that can make it to be there so that we can show the car guys that we are serious about racing with them! Party Friday night :) Do you know how fast I used to be?! I will tell you all about it Friday night!
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2019-04-22T04:04:00Z
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https://ekartingnews.com/forums/reply/24451/
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I had a pleasant afternoon photographing the Sandpatches dolphins. The afternoon sun backlights the waves beautifully. Afterwards I called into Pt Picquet and saw a blue whale go past. All in all a great way to spend a Tuesday afternoon.
This entry was posted on October 20, 2015 by ianwiese. It was filed under Dolphins and was tagged with dolphins, Sandpatches.
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2019-04-20T09:20:45Z
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Robert Ricardo Reese’s work has appeared in Drunken Boat, Poems Against War, Santa Clara Review, Poecology, Monterey Journal, and elsewhere. He received his BA in English from Santa Clara University. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and a student in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. Reese has taught poetry as an Artist-in-Residence at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts.
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https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n2/poetry/reese_r/index.shtml
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"The presentation of a postdated check is not subject to the civil or penal sanctions" that would normally apply to someone who wrote a check with insufficient funds because the postdated check promises "to discharge a present obligation at a future date" and that money would be available to meet the debt when the check is cashed.
Should the question arise the check is "postdated", there should be no problem if the debtor wrote the words "postdated" above the date of any of the checks submitted, however, without this kind of documentary evidence, it may be difficult for the debtor to prove the checks were "postdated". A judge might have to see whether the checks given in evidence bear sequential serial numbers, or appear to have been written at the same time. Such evidence infers the "checks" were postdated.
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https://consumerwiki.dca.ca.gov/wiki/index.php/Checks_(Postdated)
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Here is a teaching we did on a very pertinent topic. There have been countless books written on this topic. But why? Obviously, Christians are concerned they are making the right choices. Is it because they want perfect control over their lives? They want perfect security? They are terrified they might make a mistake (fear, fear, fear!)? Or, they think it is demonstration of true spirituality by telling others they can see God directing every detail of their lives? Does God have a perfectly detailed plan for out lives? The list goes on. We will discuss some of the common pitfalls that Christians fall into when making decisions.
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2019-04-23T02:16:20Z
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https://chab123.wordpress.com/2019/02/07/teaching-on-decision-making-and-the-will-of-god/
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What’s Your Route Down the HTML5 Road?
MVC3, Knockout, Backbone, Angular, etc. Which roads are you going down?
~ by mdavey on November 5, 2010.
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https://mdavey.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/whats-your-route-down-the-html5-road/
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The Streb Extreme Action Company, known for physically demanding performances that combine virtuosity, technical skill, and popular appeal, will open up its artistic process by turning the Tang Teaching Museum into a rehearsal and performance space, as well as an exhibition of its archive of cutting-edge work since its 1985 founding by choreographer Elizabeth Streb. The exhibition, organized by Dayton Director Ian Berry and Streb, coincides with the company’s June 2019 residency at the Skidmore College Summer Dance Workshop.
For more information about the Summer Dance Workshop, visit https://www.skidmore.edu/summerdance.
Streb is organized by Dayton Director Ian Berry in collaboration with Elizabeth Streb.
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https://tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/260-streb
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Extremely thin frame. High waisted. Will add weight but hard to imagine breaking 200lbs.
Hit 70 It takes time to appreciate the hitting ability Tapia has. You can get thrown off by the body, the stance, or what he is working on in BP that day. Some days in BP you will see him do nothing but hit line drives up the middle or to the left side. Other days he will put on a show and let it fly. No matter what he is doing his swing is very easy, well timed, and balanced. In games he sprays the ball to all fields. His swing is fluid and the ball is coming off his bat hot. His goal is simple at the plate, get the barrel on the ball. He accomplishes this more often than not thanks to an innate ability to manipulate himself and/or his bat to make sure he's squaring up the baseball.
Power 50 The power could actually play higher as Tapia fills out and adds strength. That being said Tapia will never be known for power and that's almost a compliment. He can put on a show in BP but in games he saves those type of swings for when he is sitting 2-0 or 3-1. He won't give away an at bat seeking to hit a home run and end up flying out. You make a mistake and he will punish it. Tapia is going to hit 300 but if he goes a month without seeing a pitch he can put over the fence then so be it.
Baserunning/Speed 70 From a pure footspeed view Tapia is a 6. 4 seconds down to first base with a solid first step out of the box. His grade gets raised thanks to his base running skills. He is a pest when he's on base. He stealing percentage isn't great currently as he is very hit and miss on his ability to get good jumps. He's at his best when the ball is in play and he's running. He picks up the third base coach early, doesn't waste motion trying to jerk his head around to spot fielders, he can slide around tags. Instincts are incredible.
Glove 60 On any other club he would be a CF but will work in LF for Rockies. He is coming through the minors with David Dahl who is better in CF. Tapia gets good jumps but sometimes you will see him take slow small steps but breaking out into a full run. This could be him just getting used to reading the ball at a corner spot. Doesn't have great top end speed. Everything is good defensively and Tapia's natural athleticism carries him to a 6 grade but nothing is elite.
Arm 50 Quick arm but can get on the side of the ball at times and throw sinkers from the outfield. Arm is just fringe right now but I like the mechanics and I like the arm speed. Gets rid of the ball quick for an outfielder. Will never be strong enough for RF but plays well in left and center.
Tapia can straight up hit. First 7 I've ever put down on a hitter and I did so with confidence. He makes adjustments during at bats and during his own swings that are usually unseen at this level of minor league ball. Great instincts all around. Hopefully he can add some weight and strength to his frame. Could handle center easily. Top of the order hitter who could either be a table setter or clear the table himself. Special bat.
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https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/eyewitness_bat.php?reportid=128
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The Library of Congress > Chronicling America > Dunklin democrat.
Vol. 6, no. 13 (June 22, 1893)-v. 37, no. 46 (Jan. 2, 1925).
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Ethics, Politics and Philosophy of mind/body.
Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ethical Theory (Normative Theory), History of Moral and Social Thought, Feminist Philosophy, Ethical Theory (Metaethics).
Early Modern Philosophy, Kant and post-Kantian 19th C Philosophy, Phenomenology, Ethics and Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy.
Kant, German Idealism, Early Modern, Analytic Kantianism, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Action Theory.
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Applause Travel Inc is located at 7670 Ridgewood Dr in Gladstone and has been in the business of Travel Agencies since 1992.
Applause Travel is located at 7670 Ridgewood Dr, Gladstone, OR. This business specializes in Travel Agents.
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Magnus Konongs Laga-baeters Gula-things-laug. Copenhagen: ex typographeo Thorstani Enaris Ragnelii, 1817.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 669 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 3s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
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2019-04-25T17:52:00Z
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https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/%C2%B6-magnus-konongs-laga-baeters-gula-things-laug-1817/
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Shotty River. Pretty sure I'd win a fight against all of you. Just saying.
I'm happy this is getting such a good response. Thanks everybody. I've added all the claims but just to make sure, Emmie, you're set on Topher? And lightandmagic, you want River? I wasn't exactly sure what you guys wanted, so I just wanted to be sure. I'd appreciate it if everyone could look over the list to make sure I got everything right.
I'm happy this is getting such a good response. Thanks everybody. I've added all the claims but just to make sure, Emmie, you're set on Topher?
No, no, I was joking earlier. I already claimed Spike upthread a bit. I was just lamenting missing out on Buffy and Topher et al because I only had one choice. But I definitely claimed Spike earlier.
ha, yeah right. Darla was my second pick tho.
Yes. River is my choice. Sorry if that was unclear?
OK. Sorry for the confusion. I corrected it, so you have Spike.
Sorry, Moon Eyes. Emmie had him first. Of course you're welcome to claim anyone else you'd like.
OK, sorry. While trying to sort through all the claims I got a little confused by your wording. S: It's up there, though.
I claim Fred. Are Fred & Illyria technically the same person?
No. I don't think they should be considered the same character. Do you still want Fred?
She is in the M's, for her first name, Melaka.
If you want to change claims post naming your old character and the character which you would like to exchange them for. The old character will then be available for someone else to claim.
This stuff could change depending on how this thread goes and what the community wants, so be vocal if you think a rule should be changed.
I'm just wondering about Vamp Willow since you could claim she is a different character as it wasn't the "Scooby Willow" that was turned but a completely different Willow whereas Angel vs. Angelus and Anya vs. Anyanka are the same person.
I think it would be kind of confusing to allow some alternate characters, but not others, so maybe all should be allowed? Opinions?
Oops! Sorry Eric, didnt notice her there. Thanks heaps.
Well...crap Emmie. Lol. Okay I claim Xander then.
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http://slayaliveforums.proboards.com/thread/10340/claim-character?page=2
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While right at this point there has not been a complete outline of what is going to happen it is fair to say that the days of VET FEE Help are over. The deeply flawed system which most of us have been critical of almost since its inception will be scrapped at the end of the year and replaced with a completely new system for 2017. If you want to look at what is currently being reported about the changes you can see articles here and here.
What do we know at the moment? Well it seems from looking through the information that I have a lot of the suggestions that myself and other have made and that I have talked about at length in previous articles (Redesigning VET and reinventing VFH) have made the cut shall we say. Lets then look at the major changes we know about.
This had to be part of any package of reforms as far as I was concerned. No package where currently contracted providers were simply rolled over into a new system was ever going to have legs. The old application system and criteria were systemically flawed and concentrated on the wrong metrics entirely when both determining if someone could be a provider and then managing that provider. Making everyone reapply will almost instantly contract the number of providers because a number of current providers will simply self select out for various reasons and I am certain that the government will not accept contracts with a number of providers who may look at applying. The idea that Relationships with industry, student completion rates, employment outcomes and a track record in education will all be assessed when deciding which colleges can access the loans program is a breath of fresh air and should have been included in the first place.
This is something that had to happen as well, not just because of what brokers have done to the system, but because cold calling random people and hard selling them a $20,000 diploma has nothing to do with educational outcomes and everything to do with making as much money as possible in the shortest period of time. It has been my opinion for a long time now that the rise of brokerages, and providers willing to use their services, no questions asked shall we say, was the single most significant factor in the issues which arose from VFH.
A three-tiered system of loan limits will be introduced, with loans capped at $5000, $10,000 and $15,000 depending on the cost of teaching the course.
Again this is in my opinion a no-brainer. I am yet to be convinced and a lot of people have tried, that a diploma of management is worth $10,000 plus. I think a tiered system rather than a flat cap acknowledges that different types of courses require different investments and have different costs associated with their delivery. What this will do is reign in the costs associated with programs and bring them back to some sort of normalcy, something they haven’t had in a number of years. Remember in some cases we saw 300-400% rises in course fees over essentially a 5 year period, with, in the vast majority of cases, no changes to costs or content, well except for having to pay a broker 25%. UPDATE – Loan caps only apply to the amount of money which a student will be provided with by the government to ‘pay’ for their course. Providers may charge whatever they wish for the course in question and students will be required to pay any difference between loan cap amount and course cost themselves.
Only students enrolled in courses aligned with industry needs and likely to lead to a job will be eligible for the loans.
I have said it before and I will say it again I am sure, vocational education is about employment outcomes and workforce participation and my mind has boggled at some of the courses which I have seen offered by certain providers. I acknowledge that there are concerns around priority lists and the like, but if we are being honest here just how many personal trainers and counselors do we need to have. This in conjunction with the tiered payments model should at least, if properly applied mean a much stronger employment outcomes for money invested in income contingent loans.
The new scheme will include tighter conditions so colleges can be paid in arrears and poor performing institutions can be suspended and have their payments cancelled.
All providers will be paid monthly in arrears based on authorised and verified student data. This is something which should have been part of the system from the word go. Large upfront commencement payments drove the other activities which broke the system. If there had not been such substantial almost unregulated upfront revenue a lot of the issues which occurred simply would not have happened.
Massive contraction at the Mega end of the market. Those providers with large exposure in their revenue streams to VFH, particularly those carrying a high level of debt which requires servicing are going to be in serious trouble as will any provider who has been used to charging $10,000 plus for a Diploma of Business, whether they are small or large. Any provider which doesn’t have a diversified business revenue model will struggle to find their feet again and we will I think see a not insubstantial number fold or contract heavily. If I was a provider who relied on VFH for a substantial part of my revenue, particularly if my dealings with ASQA or the Department had been anything less than favorable, I think I might be a little worried right now.
But anyway that’s just my opinion.
Third party contractors won’t be permitted for delivery. As auspicing arrangements vary so greatly, it isn’t really clear what this means.
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2019-04-24T12:29:37Z
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https://organisationallearninganddevelopment.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/massive-changes-to-vet-fee-help-the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king/
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Arts
| 0.13738 |
mnsu
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All rounds will be double elimination.
For the first-round teams will choose one player from their team as a “Grenade.” You may change your “Grenade” at the end of each game. As soon as the “Grenade” is hit that team loses and the game is over. The top two finishing teams (how far they got in the bracket) will receive points.
Teams will be made up of 6 players. Six (6) players will compete on a side; others will be available as substitutes. Substitutes may enter the game only between games or in the case of injury after the supervisor stops the game. This is an open tournament so any combination of gender may be used. You must have four (4) people present to start the game.
The games will be played in Myers Field House - 4 courts.
Game balls will be provided by the Office of Campus Recreation. Athletic type shoes must be worn.
Hitting an opposing player with a LIVE thrown ball below the shoulders (a player hit in the head will be allowed to continue and if the supervisor deems the act intentional, the thrower may be "OUT" and possibly ejected).
Catching a LIVE ball thrown by your opponent before it touches the ground. Catching a LIVE ball also brings in the teammate who has been "OUT" the longest.
A ball becomes immediately DEAD once it is blocked by another ball.
The match will be the best two (2) games out of three (3). The first team to legally eliminate all opposing players will be declared the winner of the game. A 5-minute time limit has been established for each contest. After 2 elapsed minutes, players may approach the opponents "volleyball spike line". After 3 elapsed minutes, players may approach the opponents "free throw line". If neither team has been eliminated at the end of the 5 minutes, the team with the greater number of players remaining will be declared the winner. In the case of an equal number of players remaining after regulation, a sudden-death overtime period will be played. The first team to eliminate an opposing player shall win the game.
Game begins by placing the dodgeballs along the center line - three (3) on one side of the center hash and three (3) on the other. Players then take a position behind their end line. Following a whistle by the supervisor, teams may approach the centerline to retrieve the balls.
When all six (6) balls are controlled in one side, that team must play at least a ball within ten (10) seconds to avoid a delay call. A delay will result in an "OUT" for one member of the team in control of the balls.
During pool play, rules will be enforced primarily by the "honor system"*. Players will be expected to rule whether or not a hit was legal or whether they were legally eliminated. All contests will be supervised by a supervisor*. The court supervisor's responsibility will be to rule on any situation in which teams cannot agree. THE COURT SUPERVISOR'S DECISION IS FINAL - NO EXCEPTIONS.
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2019-04-22T14:16:33Z
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https://www.mnsu.edu/homecoming/court/dodgeball/
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Sports
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Sports
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aapmr
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Residents may author an article for publication in the PM&R Resident.
Residents may serve as a co-author to develop a 1,700 word summary of a clinical topic on PM&R Knowledge NOW®.
Residents may serve as an abstract reviewer to help choose which abstracts are included in the Annual Assembly program.
The Foundation for PM&R requests Academy residents to volunteer at their 5K Run/Walk and Roll during the Annual Assembly.
Residents may volunteer to assist at workshops and courses during the Annual Assembly.
Residents may volunteer as a model for ultrasound courses.
Residents can provide feedback by participating in Academy surveys such as the Member Survey.
Residents in their PGY2 may apply for the PHiT Ambassador Program.
Residents can advocate for the specialty through the AAPM&R Advocacy Action Center.
Residents can connect with their peers at the Annual Assembly at networking events such as the Resident Town Hall Meeting and the In Training Reception.
Residents can connect with their peers and other Academy members through PhyzForum.
Residents can connect with their peers and other members through Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Residents can be elected to serve on the Physiatrist in Training Council (PHiT) Board Executive Committee or can be appointed as resident liaisons to the Strategic Coordinating Committees.
Participate in Member Communities. Learn more about them here.
Residents who become board certified may submit a nomination to serve on the Board of Governors or an Academy committee.
Academy Leadership Program – The program is best suited for Academy Fellows who are early career physiatrists who have completed residency and/or fellowship training, and have been in practice for roughly 3 to 10 years and who want to fill leadership positions in the future or those who may be ready to pursue leadership positions in mid-career.
Become a part of the Academy's Virtual Mentoring Program.
Questions about getting involved with the Academy?
Contact [email protected] or call (877) 227-6799.
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2019-04-22T14:00:53Z
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https://www.aapmr.org/career-center/residents/get-involved
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Sports
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Health
| 0.916997 |
richmond
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Previous message: [Milton-L] "You will, Oscar, you will"
> actually? you were there?
>>> > become an urban legend if it wasn't to begin with.
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2019-04-24T21:58:06Z
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https://lists.richmond.edu/pipermail/milton-l/2009-April/009310.html
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Sports
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Reference
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photoshelter
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The National Gallery of Art is an art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W. Mellon plus major art works donated by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Italian art contributions from Samuel Henry Kress, and more than 2,000 sculptures, paintings, pieces of decorative art, and porcelains from Joseph E. Widener. As a result of bequests such as these, the National Gallery today houses one of the finest collections of Western painting and sculpture in the world.
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2019-04-20T23:04:18Z
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https://havecamerawilltravel.photoshelter.com/image/I0000qmbkA9IpLFU
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Sports
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Arts
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homestead
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From the very beginning, my English writing has been a family affair. Early in my writing career in this country, I wrote several children's picture books about my sons and the issues they faced having a Chinese mother and a Caucasian father. My parents did not speak English, so one manuscript I wrote concerned the issue of communication between my sons and their grandmother. Another dealt with identity issues of sons who are "half-Chinese." In the beginning, the boys thought it was fun being models. Later, I had to bribe them into letting my husband Phil, who is an advanced amateur photographer, take their pictures for the books.
These manuscripts went unpublished. I sent them off to several publishing houses, and received only rejection slips, despite several encouraging notes from editors. (The manuscripts are still valuable to me, however, as they are documents of my family's history.) Undaunted, I continued to write stories that I thought had merit, and did not give up.
The first book I actually had published, A Day on a Shrimp Boat, is about our family making a trip on a commercial shrimp boat out of Frogmore, South Carolina, near Beaufort. This book started as an actual family trip. We were guests of a shrimper whom we had met at church, and who had agreed to let us go out with him all day, just to see how shrimp are caught, since I am a fanatical seafood lover.
Jonathan, our older son, has always been obsessed with drawing, and he wanted to illustrate my first novel, which I was working on when he was in high school. He could not, however, because he did not yet have enough art experience. After high school, he entered Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. Finally, in his last year of art school, he was able to do the interior illustrations for my fourth novel, Child Bride.
Phil took the photograph for the cover photo for my book, Tofu Quilt.
He is my first editor, my chauffeur to school visits, my companion on overseas trips, and he helps me with correspondence and promotion. He developed this website for me. Although he once told me I should go out and "get a real job," he has been supportive of my writing. Through failure and success, my family has stuck by me.
As you can see, in many ways in the Russell household, writing is a family affair.
We had so much fun on the boat (except for the seasickness) that I decided it would make a good nonfiction children's book. We got permission to go back on the boat so Phil could take pictures to illustrate the book, and I wrote the story. Then, we had to go out yet again, because when I finally found a publisher, he couldn't use the color pictures and Phil had to take black and white ones all over.
Jonathan is a video game designer working in Silicon Valley, California. Jeremy is a Realtor with RE/MAX and he and his wife, Jessica, a nurse, live in South Carolina. They gave us our first grandchild, Blake, in June of 2013. A little less than two years later, on May 22, 2015, Morgan was born, on her great-grandfather's 97th birthday!
in May, 2012 to see if I won the Scholastic Asian Book Award for Bungee Cord Hair.
only a few days old, in 2013.
Me holding little Morgan at Blake's birthday party. She was just a week old.
Our grandchildren are growing up fast.
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2019-04-23T08:39:53Z
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http://chingyeung.homestead.com/familyaffair.html
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Sports
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Recreation
| 0.508173 |
nysportsday
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Last season, Will Morgan was the glue that held the Brooklyn Cyclones bullpen together. Posting an uber-impressive 2.02 ERA with 39 strikeouts in 22 relief appearances in 2007, Morgan was a NY-Penn League All-Star and one of the most dominant relievers in the league. Sitting down with the NY Sports Day, Morgan talked about what he was up to this offseason and what to expect from him in the future.
NYSportsDay: What have you been up to this offseason?
Will Morgan: The Mets wanted me to gain a little weight this offseason. I had a skinny little upper body and big legs before and I�ve been eat�ing a lot. I think I eat about six meals a day now. At my lowest, I was 188, now I�m about 202. I think I�ve even gotten up to 206, but that was after I ate. Aside from that, I�ve been work�ing out and running a lot.
NYSD: What did you eat, exactly?
Morgan: Basically just steak and potatoes. When I wake up, I eat bacon, eggs and some potatoes. I try to mix potatoes in with every meal. A lot of rice, too.
NYSD: Now that you�ve put on the weight the Mets wanted you to, are you ready to get back out there?
Morgan: I�m really excited to get back into baseball. It�s really all I know. I got a job this offseason and I come home and I say to myself, �Why do people do this?� When I�m on the field and throwing a baseball, I just feel like I�m home. I really can�t wait to get back on the mound.
NYSD: Where were you working?
Morgan: I was working at this rusty, run down power plant. I spent most of the time driving a 30-foot high Caterpillar tractor, pushing saw�dust around and doing cleanup work on a Bobcat. I was making $12.00 an hour, but it just wasn�t for me. I love being outside and that was really the only good part about the job. During the baseball season, we work our asses off every day and there are no days off. I don�t want to come home after the season is over and go work hard all over again. I definitely wouldn�t mind pushing papers or working at an office next season. I used to come home so tired from the power plant that I didn�t even want to go to the gym and work out sometimes.
NYSD: Now that you can put that experience behind you, what are you really focused on this season? Last year, it was obvious that you wanted to be the closer in Brooklyn, but that didn�t work out. Are you looking to find a spot as a closer on another team in the organization?
Morgan: I�m always going to try for that closer spot. I love having an opportunity to pitch everyday and I don�t care what inning you put me in, but I would really like to pitch in the eighth and ninth inning. Either way, I�m still going to go balls out in every inning I pitch. Just because I�m not the closer, my work ethic is still going to stay the same. My mindset is that whenever I come in, it�s the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded and two outs. I always have a job to do. In the instructional league the Mets invited me to this year, I started pitch�ing in the seventh and eighth like I did last year, but at the end, they let me pitch in the ninth and I�m really hap�py with the way I played. I did really well. I don�t know what their plans are, but they let me close a few games and we�ll see what happens.
NYSD: Last season you had a fastball, slider and cutter in your arsenal. Have you added any new weap�ons to make sure you get the chance to close games?
Morgan: I�ve been working on a changeup a lot this offseason and the organization really wanted me to work with it. I�m starting to get really comfortable with it. It�s going to help me a lot with right-handed hitters because all they usually see from me is my fastball and a breaking ball. They have two pitches to choose from, one that breaks away and one that�s straight that has a little bit of a tail on it. Now, the changeup makes them think a little harder when they�re up there.
NYSD: Do you usually think about what�s in the hitter�s mind when you�re on the mound?
Morgan: I was a good hitter in college and I would always look to see what a pitcher had before I got up there. I�d always pay attention to what they threw to lefties and what they threw to righties, so I would know what I should expect. In college, I would always notice how most right-handed pitchers would just throw changeups to left-handed hitters. Then they�ll throw fastballs and sliders to righties. If they got behind, they�d rely on the fastball. Once that fastball comes, then all you have to do is be able to hit it. I think being able to understand that makes me a better pitcher and try and put myself in their shoes and give them the pitch they don�t expect.
NYSD: Well, you did that all season last year. How did that feel?
Morgan: I actually never looked at my stats last season. I mean, I had everyone talking to me about them and getting in my head about them, but I never once went online and looked at them. I just focused on getting the job done. The stats don�t mean anything if you give up the big run and let the team down.
NYSD: What was it like being so successful in Brooklyn last year?
Morgan: It was so much fun to watch all these talented guys every day. Watching guys like Lucas Duda and Jason Jacobs hit the way they did last year was awesome. Jake Eigsti is the best third baseman I�ve ever played behind and watching guys like Nick Carr and Grady Hinchman was a blast. Grady has so much heart out there. I still remember Matt Boucha�rd�s walk-off home run last season, too. That was probably the single most exciting game I�ve ever been a part of. For me to play a part in that was amazing. The fans there were great and they really supported us.
NYSD: Are you confident you can do it again this year?
Morgan: I think so. I just really want the opportunity to pitch every day. I really don�t want to stay in extended Spring Training. I know I�m going to have to work hard, but I�m willing to do whatever it takes. If I had had to choose where I�d go, I�d love to be closing games out in St. Lucie or Savannah; I think I�m ready to play long-season ball. If that doesn�t hap-pen, I just want the opportunity pitch every day. The rest will then take care of itself.
Patrick Hickey, Jr. now has a Brooklyn Cyclones Blog at DemBrooklynBums.com, check it out today!
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2019-04-20T22:09:47Z
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http://www.nysportsday.com/news/combined/Morgan-Ready-to-Get-Started.php
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Sports
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Sports
| 0.504847 |
tripod
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This is a repeat breeding; the first cross produced outstanding puppies which have matured into beautiful, intelligent companions.
I'm soooo handsome, don't ya think?
Snow, Snow -- I just love snow!
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2019-04-20T06:41:04Z
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http://blackbriar1.tripod.com/id8.html
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Sports
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Health
| 0.265269 |
typepad
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For plain vanilla interest rate derivatives option seller/buyer, it is very important that his position is delta hedged.
Reason : He can make money on gamma .Or he can enter in to an exotic derivative(similar to forward start option) where he need not delta / gamma hedge . Make money trading vega.
However that was not the case with Indian Banks as RBI has strict regulations where banks were forced only to take short positions!!.
Well, what's the use of Quant specialized in IR Derivatives in India where one can't even play with both sides of the market ?
Thankfully , Last month there was a ruling which allows Indian banks to take long AND short positions!
Indian markets should now see some action!!
Mark Cuban is definitely one guy whose success story has inspired quite a few to always do what they love .
Now this news item is disturbing !! . I hope he comes out clean. I think he will.
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2019-04-22T04:42:30Z
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https://radhakrishna.typepad.com/rks_musings/current_affairs/
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Sports
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News
| 0.509873 |
pbs
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Most humans fail to entertain the possibility that animals might care about the death of those they love.
Hall, a candid, unaffected writer who examined love, loss and rural American life, died Saturday at the age of 89.
The NewsHour asked its staff for recommendations of books or poems that helped them survive a period of loss. In their own words, here are 10 possible reads for someone who's grieving.
In Spinelli's new book, "The Warden’s Daughter," the Newberry Award-winning author tells the story of a girl growing up without a mother in a county prison.
Why did Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds die one day apart? Here’s what science can tell us.
Vanessa Angelica Villarreal writes about growing up in Texas, cultural assimilation and the myths of her Mexican family's history.
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2019-04-21T07:20:14Z
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/grief
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Sports
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Arts
| 0.682643 |
weebly
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The Skaven writing system developed as a series of runes or pictograms. These grew in number as time went one, now numbering in the thousands, though only a few Skaven can identify more than a few of the most important ones. The runes tend to have complex meanings and associations, encompassing several related concepts.
The most frequently used and easily identifiable is the Symbol of the Horned Rat, which signifies not only the deity of the Skaven but also the Skaven race as a whole.
As the Skaven developed in the use of magic and technology, the utility of a standardised alphabet would have quickly been apparent, especially among the Warlock Engineers of Clan Skryre.
The Skaven alphabet is comprised of 13 letters, approximated in a Latin-based writing system as 8 consonants, 4 vowels, and the 13th letter, "X", which primarily serves as an unvoiced mutation.
Skaven letter-runes are represented by both a Formal and Informal symbol. While its tempting to compare these to upper and lower-cases in English, their application in Skaven writing is nowhere near as consistent. Though it is standard practice that any nouns (proper or otherwise) are begun with a Formal letter, beyond that both symbols are used pretty much interchangeably, seemingly at whim.
Another peculiarity of Skaven writing is that, in the case of nouns where a commonly used pictographic symbol already exists, the rune commonly replaces the first letter of the word when written out. This is also the case insofar as when the names of Skaven personages are written out, the first letter is often replaced with the symbol for their clan.
Besides the Formal and Informal symbols, Skaven will also often use shorthand symbols for letters that are Doubled (see below).
Each Skaven letter rune has a single associated sound ("phone"), unlike less regimental languages (such as English), where any one letter is used to represent a variety of phones. However, the phone associated with a letter rune may be modified in one of two ways; by Doubling the letter, or with the addition of the 'X' mutation directly preceding a letter. In this manner, the Skaven alphabet is much more versatile than the small number of letters implies.
The following guide provides the closest English equivalents of the Skaven letter rune phones. The structure of the Skaven mouth produces a variety of sounds generally foreign to human speech. Just as there are a number of palatal and palatal-alveolar phones used by the Skaven that humans can, at best, only approximate, Skaven themselves are unable to accurately reproduce the common English labials (p, b, m, w). Much like a ventriloquist, the Skaven must resort to approximations, often by way of labio-dentals.
As a general rule of thumb, Skaven vocalizations are higher pitched than English is typically spoken, & most consonants are palatalized, giving the tongue a guttural inflection.
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2019-04-22T18:25:49Z
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https://pariedolia.weebly.com/nimh/archives/05-2015
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Sports
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Reference
| 0.111437 |
wordpress
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La Mescita is a very typical Italian Osteria. It is located in the market area. Old wooden tables, marble counter, many gastronomic guides signalling. A very pleasant atmosphere to taste very good dishes. Excellent artichokes salade with Parmigiano and oil of anchois, interesting ravioli filled with mucco (a typical cow of the Pisa area) served with a potato’s sauce, magnifics are the tagliatelle with the meat sauce and also the “parigina”, a very typical Tuscany dish. Also the creamy tiramisu is well prepared and excellent dessert. The Wine offer is interesting and also the vino della casa is a good Rosso di Montalcino.
The service is quite quick and informal but very kind. The portion are genourous, and the prices correct.
Contact the restaurant or, if you prefer, contact Vacavilla to receive all necessary information.
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2019-04-21T14:42:53Z
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https://vacavillarentalsitaly.wordpress.com/category/osteria-la-mescita/
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Sports
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Reference
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